Reviews
Bye Bye Bayou
‘ We have outgrown our Cajun/zydeco roots’ declare Mama Rosin in the press blurb that came with the valedictorially titled...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Risplendenti, Riversi
Nataša Mirkovic & Michel Godard
Bosnian-born Nataša Mirković has been exploring the borderlands between early music and Balkan melodies for some years. Both categories are...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021
Hologram Imparatorluğu
Gaye Su Akyol hails from the cultural scene on Turkey's Black Sea coast, a melting pot for the arts where...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Lustuz Laþu Wōþuz Alu
Nordic and Viking culture is currently enjoying a resurgence, not least with the release of big-budget film, The Northman. Which...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: November/2022
Sole Kitchen
Along the highways and byways in and around Portland, Oregon, there are so many microbreweries dispensing fine beers and even...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2010
The Long Count
On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022
Last Pagan Rites/From the Yotvingian Stone
Born in 1932, Bronius Kutavičius is one of the most prominent figures in Lithuanian musical culture. Concerned with the deep...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2020
A Persian Dream
For those whose appetites might have been whetted by the standout performance of the Iranian Vahdat sisters, here's another contemporary...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014
Africa for Africa
Femi Kuti has had a stop-start career. At the same age he is now, 48, his father Fela had virtually...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Brooklyn-Cumaná
New York has long been the hub of Latin-Saxon musical collaborations. Jorge Clem is a Latin Grammy winner and Grammy-nominated...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2023
