Reviews
Concert Program
Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes
The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
They’re Calling Me Home
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
Rhiannon Giddens is incapable of producing an album that is not simultaneously a fascinating musical education and deeply enjoyable listening...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2021
Some Heavy Hand
Spanning the Anglo-American folk duo’s career from 2005 to 2018, Some Heavy Hand is a marvellous collection of unreleased session...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021
Best of Lura
Proof that the Cape Verde renaissance has come of age, this anthology confirms Lura as her own generation’s elder stateswoman,...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2011
Bending the Dark
Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012
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Che Belew (March Forward)
Aficionados of Francis Falceto’s Éthiopiques series will recall Ayalew Mesfin from the extraordinary track ‘Hasabe’ on volume eight: Swinging Addis....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021
Fiesta Tropical
‘From Havana to Rio, it’s party time’ announce the liner notes accompanying this concoction crossing eras, musical styles and performers...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: March/2010
Mango
Helming Mo’ Horizons are two Hannoverian DJs and producers, Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler, who have been plying their Euro-Brazilian...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023
Remembrances
On his previous album, 2020’s Zarb-e Osul, Montreal-based percussionist Ziya Tabassian demonstrated his mastery of ancient Persian rhythmic cycles known...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/February/2024
