Reviews

Haar

HAV

This second album from Scottish ambient folk trio HAV is as ethereal and elusive as the coastal environment it is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2021

Assolist

Efruze

These sentimental tracks come from the golden, pre-Arabesk, age of Turkish gazinos, venues where mixed crowds would come, eat and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2021

Cissoko Heritage

Maher Cissoko

Born in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, Maher Cissoko’s claim to be the 73rd generation of a griot family...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021

Trujillo, Perú 1971-1974

Manzanita y Su Conjunto

Somewhere along the way cumbia has become the term used to describe Latin America’s golden age of tropical, danceable music,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2021

Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This year marks 100 years since Astor Piazzolla’s birth in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This album is a timely homage...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

Borrowed Time

Joe Troop

Appalachian banjo and fiddle player, bilingual singer-songwriter and activist à la Pete Seeger, Joe Troop calls this his ‘dream album.’...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021

Monastir

Sarah Aroeste

There is quite some story and a lot of work behind this album. American-born Sarah Aroeste comes from a Sephardic...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021

Sovereign

Chris Murphy

Beginning with ‘Halfway Around the World’, this gathering of sidemen to the stars (British art-rocker Brian Auger, Elvis Costello drummer...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021

Music for Dancing

Elettro Mascarimiri

Since the 90s Apulian/Roma musician and producer Claudio ‘Cavallo’ Giagnotti has worked to innovate the hugely popular pizzica salentina, exploring...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2021

Abantu/Before Humans

BLK JKS

Back in 2009 South African indie-rockers-with-roots BLK JKS seemed to be on the verge of international stardom: Dave Grohl called...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021