Reviews
Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Homage to Wayan Lotring
This double CD features the only surviving clear recordings of one of the most important Balinese musicians of modern times,...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2020
Cadence Revolution 1973-1981: Disque Debs International Vol 2
Volume two of Strut's exploration of Disque Debs International recordings - the longest-running and most prolific label of the French...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2020
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Rujo
I first heard Antti Paalanen when he released Breathbox (2010). In the audience was Kimmo Pohjonen who'd had such strong...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2020
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Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)
Following on the heels of its Psychedelic Anadolu selection from 2017, legendary Turkish label Uzelli has come out with a...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Monstruos y Duendes Vol 1: Myfyrio
So many non-Spanish guitarists have fallen under the spell of flamenco that it might almost be considered a sub-genre of...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2020
Te yn y Grug (Tea in the Heather)
Welsh musician Al Lewis is well established as a singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as half of Americana...
Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: May/2020
Amoreamaro
There many reasons to admire singer Maria Mazzotta: for her voice, of course, so brilliant, intimate and dramatic; for her...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2020
Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
