Reviews
Pilgrim Souls
The fiddler, singer and step-dancer with popular Scottish band Breabach, and a member of a prominent traditional music family from...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2022
Rişar & Kupa 4
These songs stem from a perilous time in Turkish history when ethnic strife between Turks, Greeks and Armenians was beginning...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: April/2022
Buganda Royal Music Revival
The Kingdom of Buganda was founded in the 14th century and is located in the central part of what is...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2022
Livre
A seminal figure in Portuguese music, the guitarist Mário Pacheco for many years ran the Clube de Fado in Lisbon...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
Flash de Mémoire
The concept of marrying traditional songs with heavy electronic dance music is a curious one, conjuring notions of the Pet...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2022
Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe
The World Music Charts Europe was founded 30 years ago by the European Broadcasting Union and has been compiled every...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
Re/Semblance: Saath-Saath
Conceived and realised between 2016-2019, and necessitating numerous trips between Bangalore, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Wuhan,...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2022
Myth of the Drum
Jone Takamäki, Umut Çağlar & Fahrettin Aykut
This gloriously unfettered improvised jam – split into two halves – finds Fahrettin Aykut, former drummer with Turkish psychonauts Baba Zula,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
Carnaval de Pernambuco
Writing a one-star review is never nice, especially when you know that the artists’ hearts are in the right place,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
