Reviews

Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II

Gabriella Ghermandi

Anyone familiar with Francis Falceto's marvellous Éthiopiques series will have a good idea of what to expect from this album...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Lullaby for Naila

London Lucumi Choir

How right-on do you like your music? The London Lucumi Choir is a community choir that doesn’t select through auditions....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Qasida

Rosario ‘La Tremendita’ & Mohammad Motamedi

This live CD bears witness to the meeting of Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi and flamenco singer-songwriter Rosario ‘La Tremendita’...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Remembrance

Arvvas

Imagine Tom Waits heading north and living for a while with Sámi musicians in Norway. Steinar Raknes has a voice...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra

In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Al Viento

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus

Even without the different surnames, you’d be forgiven for not realising that Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus are father and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Mirrors

Mala

Though he will perhaps always be best known for his role in instigating the dubstep movement – through his work...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Sandaraa

Sandaraa

Sandaraa are a musical manifesto defying ethnic, linguistic and national borders and tracing a shared human experience through their ‘trans-Eurasian’...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Song of Lahore

The Sachal Ensemble

It's sad that the conductor of The Sachal Ensemble, Najat Ali, still feels it necessary to state that ‘we will...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016

Aukai

Aukai

Aukai is German multi-instrumentalist and composer Markus Sieber; his stage moniker is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘traveller.’ His ambient-hippy instrumental...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016