Reviews
Hlybini
Hlybini means ‘Depths’ in accordionist Aliaksandr Yasinski's native Belarusian. In his first solo album he plumbs these, musically and emotionally....
Reviewed in issue December/2022
North South East West
Norwegian folk and Arabic maqam engage in an understated courtship on this debut record by violinist Inger Hannisdal. Bass, drums...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
KALAK
Sarathy Korwar is doing for contemporary British-Asian music what Talvin Singh achieved almost 30 years ago – taking Indian rhythms,...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Arabesque
Spotted a few years ago by producer Mark Ronson to record a cover of ‘Uptown Funk’ at Abbey Road, the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Neon Colonialismo
It's ten years since musical free radical Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão, exploded into my dance floor set with his Batida...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
History Has a Heartbeat
Joseph Tawadros with William Barton
Born in Cairo, Egypt and having emigrated to Australia aged three, Joseph Tawadros has done much to expand the boundaries...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
This Is Funkiwala
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
London-based record label Funkiwala is a global music treasure trove, a spiritual and (hopefully) commercial home for the best and...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Telluric Translations
Quee MacArthur, Luke Plumb, Joseph Peach, Charlie Grey
Conceived amid the strangeness that became normality during lockdown, Telluric Translations is the result of four musicians communicating across the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Sleeping Giants
Formed by violinist/bandleader Olivia Moore, Unfurl is a Manchester-based collective that draws upon contemporary jazz and Indian classical music, partially...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
Sangam
Paul Livingstone & Pete Jacobson
The chamber music duo of sitarist Paul Livingstone and cellist Pete Jacobson, aka Sangam, have a new album of the...
Reviewed in issue December/2022
