Reviews
Macadam
The Belgian trio schroothoop make their own instruments, recycled from plastic, metal and wood. Their obsession is to construct shadow...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Scuru Cauru
Scuru Cauru, Crimi's second album, kicks off with the bubbling of a water pipe and a vague background ditty suggestive...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Gojo
For 14 years, the Fendika ensemble have represented the Addis Ababa azmaribet (traditional Ethiopian music-house) of the same name, serving...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Where Water Meets Water: Bird Songs & Lullabies
From Tuva via Moscow to Vienna, Sainkho here visits abandoned islands in the Venetian lagoon, improvising lyrical vocal lines, soft...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Mutations
Ever since 2017's Tribal Match found its way onto Kampala's dancefloors, Faizal Mostrixx has been a driving force on Uganda's...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
The Sky is the Same Colour Everywhere
Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté
In recent years the kora has proven to be remarkably adaptable in duetting with non-African instruments. On The Sky is...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Hues of Imagination
Melisa Yıldırım & Swarupa Ananth
This is a remarkable duo of Anatolian fiddle with Indian tabla percussion. Melisa Yıldırım plays an Azeri-style bowed kamancha with...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Speech of Species
This follow-up to Belgian quartet Echoes Of Zoo's 2021 debut Breakout is, by all accounts, a concept album exploring the...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Catching Ghosts
Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake
Peter Brötzmann is a graduate of the 1960s free jazz movement, who plays saxophone clarinet and the Eastern European tárogató....
Reviewed in issue July/2023
