Reviews
Drawn to the Light
Fiddle player Oli Wilson-Dickson and guitarist Dylan Fowler have a lengthy history of working together, sharing projects including The Devil’s...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2022
Havana Cultura – The Search Continues
We've been here before, sort of. Three years ago BBC DJ Gilles Peterson enlisted the help of his musician mate...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Elizabethan Session
Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Otros Aires Presents Balkan Airs
Balkan Airs is the latest project from Buenos Aires' nu tango outfit Otros Aires, and it just might disappoint some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Aw Sa Yone Vol 2
In the early 1980s in the city of Thies in Senegal, a group recorded approximately two-and-a-half hours of music that...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2016
Ammore, Trivolo, Currivo e Devozione
La Moresca is an acoustic Neapolitan septet harnessing their local music to traditional styles of the Campania region and baroque...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2010
Influence
The Count and the Cuban Cocktail
The ever-expanding Cuban diaspora notwithstanding, there's something slightly bizarre about the circumstances of this debut album – recorded by a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015
Legend
The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu & Moscow Art Trio
With a Bulgarian female choir, Tuvan throat singers and hand-picked musicians from Moscow, you get some spectacular sounds and textures...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Vindodo
The first thing you'll notice about this album is its packaging – no jewel case here! Instead, the CD comes...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
