Reviews
Live at Bakehouse
Australian-Iranian singer and instrumentalist Gelareh Pour begins her performance with a breathy introduction on her kamancheh (spike fiddle), before cautiously...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2020
Skipping Rocks
Skipping Rocks is the second album by the father-and-son duo of Ken and Brad Kolodner, featuring the senior party on...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2014
The Wolf of Baghdad Memoir of a Lost Homeland
The Wolf of Baghdad is an ambitious and beautifully executed motion-comic that tells the story of Carol Isaacs’ Iraqi-Jewish family...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Kintal da Banda
The Angolan legend José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho, aka Bonga, turns 80 this year and his latest album is released...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
RE: Plugged
The irony with remixes is that they tend to make something very much of-the-moment while simultaneously cursing it to sound...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2011
La Llorona
While she could play the tragic heroine with a bleeding heart with the best of them, Chavela Vargas was also...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018
Oro
Grammy-nominated darlings Choc Quib Town are the real deal: a trio who preserve the heritage of such traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2010
La Imagen en Silencio
Buenos Aires has strained connections with its hinterlands; beyond them, provincial Argentina has more in common with Bolivia or Mongolia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
Folk Music of China Vol 4: Songs of Guangxi
This is a rare recording of some lesser-known musical traditions from Guangxi, China. The album presents authentic folk songs of...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: May/2020
