Reviews
Itai Kriss & Telavana
The flautist Itai Kriss grew up in Israel, where he absorbed an array of musical traditions from Morocco to the...
Reviewed in issue October/2018
Raï is not Dead
Fanfaraï Big Band have been known as just Fanfaraï since their inception in 2005, but have now renamed owing to...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Painted Sands
You can almost taste the spices and smell the sweat of the Silk Road, the kicked-up dirt from millions of...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Sirocco
On the remix of ‘Andalucia’ that concludes this rewarding album, intermittent shots of percussion unsettle the underlying rumba and flamenco...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Topspin
Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Avant Folk
Frode Haltli is a classically trained Norwegian accordionist, accustomed to working in both folk and avant-garde music. On his latest...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
The Rough Guide to World Music
It's a quarter of a century since Phil Stanton's World Music Network label released its debut compilation, the first Rough...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Arcana: The Indo-Jazz Sessions
Arcana announces itself with ‘Kalavati’, a driving fusion track named after a Hindustani raga; the piece establishes the album as...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Riva
Astrid Kuljanic Transatlantic Exploration Company
Not content with her training as a chemical engineer, Croatian Astrid Kuljanic decided after college to follow her first passion:...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
Te
Samurai Accordion is an international collective of virtuoso diatonic button squeezebox players: Riccardo Tesi and Simone Bottasso from Italy; Kepa...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
