Reviews
Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia
Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Vida-Código
For Vida-Código -his fourth album and his third on the Swedish Ajabu! label – Tiganá Santana presents very little of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
Sul Filo
Iva Bittová has been pushing the boundaries of East European music for almost 30 years, her voice and violin (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
Sangeet
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Tanmoy Bose
Sudeshna Bhattacharya, who has been a lecturer in International Management and also teaches Indian classical music at the Norwegian Academy...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2020
Songs of Forbidden Love
Under the assured leadership of Dessislava Stefanova, The London Bulgarian Choir have become a very impressive outfit. The LBC consist...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
Calypso Travels
Lord Invader & His Calypso Group
One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Thempest in a Theapot
I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2020
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
A Pilgrim's Tale
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail with 102 passengers, mostly religious refugees, for a new...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020
