Reviews
XIV – A Integração
XIV – A Integração is a wonderfully untidy, uneven pile of ideas, mysticism and sacred touchstones, electro-acoustics and real sound,...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast
The title of this delicious compilation derives from the picós, the Afro-Colombian sound systems analogous to their Jamaican counterparts and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2023
Carrying
Unifying the output of North Carolina-based musician Sally Anne Morgan is not easy. There's her solo albums, 2020's Thread and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2023
Gal’üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi
Jeremy Pahl is the birth name of guitarist and fiddler Saltwater Hank, a member of the Ts’msyen group of First...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2023
Manoyatri – The Mind Voyager
Manoyatri is a set of four exciting new compositions by Australia-based Avra Banerjee who trained in Indian classical music and...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2023
Travellers
Jason Singh & The Banwasi Collective
UK-based composer and sound artist Jason Singh is known for his innovative work making music out of the sounds of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2023
Tuz (Salt)
Cengiz Özkan's eighth album for Kalan, Tuz (Salt), is a lovely collection of ten Turkish folk songs. The album is...
Reviewed by Nick Hobbs in issue: October/2023
King of the Blind
Originally from California, now based in Boston, the young uilleann piper Joey Abarta names his second album after a tune...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023
Balkan Express
Following the recent fusion-oriented album Enigma, Danish reedsman Bjonko Stosic and band return with a more traditional take on the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023
Archangel Hill
Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023
