Reviews
La Otra Mitad
Nothing startles these days. Postmodernism has attuned us to collage, palimpsest and pastiche. But this sampling of sonic essays on...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Dedications
Formed in 2016 by students of Boston's New England Conservatory, Night Tree's sophomore album makes an even bolder claim for...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
El Hajar
One of Israel's leading rock stars, Dudu Tassa is the grandson of the celebrated musician Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, whose collaborations with...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Look Up
It would be a stretch to call the British quintet Me and My Friends a ‘world music’ band – but...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Dor an Enez
When he was 14 Fred Guichen founded a band with his brother Jean-Charles. To the traditional fest noz line-up –...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Trikala
One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician, or perhaps a South...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Radio Highlife
Radio Highlife is the fruit of many years' worth of Auntie Flo touring around the world, tuning in to local...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Thinking Sideways
Too often, acts from this side of the pond who say they play bluegrass or country actually churn out a...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
Dreamers
Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider
The names dropped on the lyric sheet of this classy crossover album constitute a lofty constellation of Ibero-American idealism: Octavio...
Reviewed in issue March/2019
