Reviews
Seekers and Finders
What's left to say about Gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello? Not much on the strength of this, their seventh album....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ladilikan
This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
London Stories
Maciek Pysz (from Poland) and Gianluca Corona (from Italy) first played together in 2012, at an East London jam session....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Tigre
Tigre, Banda Magda's third album (which is subtitled Stories of Courage and Fearlessness) is a polished affair, swathed in lush...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ephemera
All four musicians of Lingua Franca are graduates of the Rotterdam Conservatoire (CODARTS) and two are now teachers there, specialising...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Ma De Re Sha
It would be easy to lump Rahul Mukerji's fusion guitar music in with the tradition of John McLaughlin, but nothing...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Long Road to Tiznit
Blues guitarist and serial collaborator Ramon Goose, most recently heard with the West African Blues Project, is back with a...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
On Love and Science
Zulya and the Children of the Underground
Zulya Kamalova, an Australian singer and exponent of Tatar and Russian music, and her band of maestros have teamed up...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Where the Gods are in Peace
Brooklyn's Antibalas have been releasing Afrobeat records for nearly two decades and their latest effort is an exemplary demonstration of...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
In the Beginning
In the Beginning is a collaboration between the Danish singer Kira Skov and the Estonian, Copenhagen-based saxophonist and composer, Maria...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
