Reviews
Rhythms of Tof Miriam
If, like me, you have a reptile-brain suspicion of recordings that bring together New Age sensibilities with world drums and...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2020
303
Combine the following ingredients – trumpet, guitar, mandolin, banjo, lute harp, lyre harp, dulcitone, chimes, cornet and bowed psaltery –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Periphery
Priya Darshini is a US-based singer from South Asia who draws on an eclectic range of musical influences. This is...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2020
11 Dimensions
This is CH Straatmann's second solo album. He's an undeniably talented bass player, who hails from Brazil, with an impressive...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2020
Kaloli
Kampala has an insatiable sense of groove. While neighbouring capital Kinshasa is better known for its industrial mix of percussion...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020
Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast
Afro-Colombian music has long been overlooked – largely down to an institutional and classist bias that, it has to be...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
Love and Leave You
As the title suggests 100 Mile House's second album is all about relationships and loss. Love and Leave You is...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2020
About Land
Mira Pardelha's story starts in 1998 when Canadian musicians Jason Breckenridge and Ian Brimacombe were flatmates in Lisbon and first...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2020
La Próxima Traición
Tango has always reflected society – especially Buenos Aires’ urban society, but also, at various times, that of Paris, New...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2020
From Our World to Yours
This second duo recording by Gao Hong and Issam Rafea – a follow-up to 2018's excellent Life As Is –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2020
