Reviews
Musique de France
Adding to the rich heritage of Middle Eastern and North African music blended with European electronica, Parisian collective Acid Arab...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Diwan of Beauty and Odd
Singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef is one of music's unrelenting explorers. From his roots in Tunisia he has travelled...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
The Myth of the Golden Ratio
This London-based quartet is made up of the three brothers Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes (who play, respectively, drums, trombone...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Dance Me to Heaven
Victoria Klewin & The True Tones
Funded by fans and daydream believers comes this first album from a tight little unit currently making waves in the...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Charlatan de Balkan
Magnifico – born Robert Pešut – is a Slovenian singer-songwriter whose eclectic music making and willingness to employ humour and...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Sunday Morning Sessions
Thrace is a quartet of musicians formed around classical cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, a long-serving member of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain....
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Brothers & Sisters
Lakuta are based in Brighton, but have influences that stretch far further afield. Their name is a Swahili term that...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Come 2 Me
Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni
In 2015, Ilaria Graziano and Francesco Forni delighted their native Italian audiences, as well as overseas listeners, with the Irish-tinged...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
A Selection of Ever-Popular Favourites
This live recording from the duo's UK tour last autumn features a set of old-time vaudeville and music hall songs,...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
