Reviews

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Lo'Jo

One can always rely on this French outfit to lay before us a grand sonic banquet that incorporates multiple national...

Reviewed in issue November/2017

Every Man for Every Man

Ghetto Priest

Ghetto Priest, best known as the Rastafarian frontman for electronica/fusion legends Asian Dub Foundation, has released this solo album as...

Reviewed in issue November/2017

In Buenos Aires

Fraser Fifield, Walther E Castro, Quique Sinesi, Mono Hurtado

Argentina has a healthy Celtic music scene, thanks to its small but significant populations of Scottish and Irish extraction and...

Reviewed in issue November/2017

When the Time Comes

Barika

Kamalengoni player Craig Myers is a busy musician. He currently performs with Mike Gordon (of Phish fame) and was a...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Dunya

ComboNations

Convened and led by Javid Afsari Rad, a santur (hammered dulcimer) player with Iranian roots, ComboNations capitalise on a variegated...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Har Dam Sahara

Rafiki Jazz

Rafiki Jazz are a Sheffield-based band whose mission statement is to ‘create music that crosses cultural boundaries.’ Thankfully the results...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Souffles des Steppes

Henri Tournier & Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig

Souffles des Steppes (Breath of the Steppes) is the follow-up to the excellent 2015 album Souffles du Monde, on which...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Basant

The Dhol Foundation

Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Veer

Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha

Griselda Sanderson and Ricardo de Noronha met on stage a couple of years ago and have been making music together...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Inland Sea

Stephan Micus

I was first drawn to the music of Stephan Micus by his piece written for 56 flowerpots in the 1980s....

Reviewed in issue October/2017