Reviews
Melting Pot
If you think of steel pan music as nothing but boring standards by a bored-looking busker, then Melting Pot will...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Karkadé
Egyptian-born Mohamed Abozekry is the latest in an illustrious line of oud players from the Arab world who have graced...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
The Calais Sessions
Various Artists, Featuring the Musicians of the Calais ‘Jungle’
One weekend in September 2015, a group of international musicians based in the UK visited the now-demolished refugee and migrant...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Cats, Dogs and Ghosts
Kottarashky is Nikola Gruev, a young Bulgarian composer and producer whose 2009 debut album Opa Hey! demonstrated a fluid,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Apollo You Sixteen
‘Progressive world music’ is how this Belgium-based 40-year-old autodidact describes his latest album, which fuses flamenco with folk, garage, classical...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
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Retribution
Tanya Tagaq's music somehow manages to feel completely out of this world, and at the same time deeply plugged into...
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I Dreamed an Island
Piers Faccini created a beautiful duo album, Songs of Time Lost, with cellist Vincent Segal in 2014. But the British...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Africa Express Presents… The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians & Guests
The brief summer tour of European festivals that reunited an orchestra of Syrian musicians scattered by civil war and put...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
