Reviews
Uncharted: A Viola da Gamba Adventure
Gerald Trimble is an American multi-instrumentalist who started out playing Renaissance cittern (lute), then became interested in Turkish music, learning...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Consonnances
Tri Nguyen & The Ilios Quartet
In zither master Tri Nguyen, Vietnam has a fine ambassador for its traditional music. This recording has a clearly defined...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Makes a King
The Very Best are a duo, Johan Hugo and Esau Mwamwaya, who met in London's Hackney. They won a good...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
A New Tango Songbook
Ostensibly, this is an unlikely combination. In the red corner: Christoph Müller from Switzerland and Eduardo Makaroff of Argentina, two...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
My Fairy Tales
Nneka made waves nearly seven years ago with her glorious hit single ‘Heartbeat’. However, her latest album is surprisingly flat....
Reviewed in issue June/2015
La Route Intérieure
For 20 years, producer, composer and instrumentalist Xavier Demerliac has been creating concept albums as L’Attirail. His records are influenced...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Biester
17 Hippies’ previous release, Titus Träumt (2013), was an album for children to which the Berlin collective brought all their...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Tariq
The composer Jaume Compte has explored the music of southern Europe and the Middle East with a number of different...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Las Bases del Razonamiento
For the most part, Sonido Vegetal seem to be part of the great line of Spanish ska-punk bands, but their...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Let's!
The debut album by London's Yiddish Twist Orchestra adopts a puzzling stance. It has enough of a rampant novelty factor...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
