Reviews
Incoming!
Riot Jazz Brass Band are one of the UK's foremost new brass bands. Taking the template of the pit bands...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Touristes
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
The Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and the 25-year-old American singer Julia Easterlin met in New York in 2014 when...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Viva Diaspora
With over two decades of being lauded for his electronic take on Gypsy brass and klezmer stylings, Frankfurt's Shantel hit...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Dystopian Dream
Like the musical equivalent of Stephen Fry, Nitin Sawhney seems to be everywhere. Producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, composer of film, TV...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
From Bedlam to Lenane
Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni
With that title beside those two names, I was expecting a couple of Italian crooners on an Irish road trip....
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Extra-Deluxe-Supreme
The nine-piece New York-based ensemble Hazmat Modine may just be my favourite American roots band and their third studio album...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Under the Shade of Violets
The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
The Three Forges
The Three Forges is further evidence that gamelan is on its way to being a global music, a set of...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
The Iqrit Files
The Palestinian refugee camps of the Middle East are a hotbed of musical creativity, although there are few outlets for...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Luys i Luso
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
The supreme art form in Armenian culture is, I would argue, its ecclesiastical architecture. Those rugged churches with conical domes...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
