Reviews
Where’s the One?
Kinshasa’s Congotronic axis meet chosen international artists and create an epic, euphoric mash-up celebrating the tenth anniversary of a historic...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Anyankofo
Total Hip Replacement’s Anyankofo – a Fante word meaning ‘Friends’ – is an album about just that. This is a warm,...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Mazel Tov Cocktail Party
David Krakauer | David Krakauer
Clarinettist David Krakauer is the ringleader for this high spirited album that features the Mazel Tov Cocktail Party Orchestra (with...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Maputo Electronico
Smadj/Chico Antônio/Rhodalia Silvestre
This new Maputo Electronico combination involves the musical traditions of Mozambique and Tunisia, filtered through a French electronic gauze, its...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Restless Nation: The Music of Andy Teirstein
Andy Teirstein/Marco Ambrosini/Yair Dalal/Mivos Quartet/Cassatt String Quartet
On one hand, ‘world music’ denotes a sound or style resulting from melding instrumentation (including vocalisation) drawn from different cultural...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Yeshi Dolma
Tenzin Choegyal, Katherine Philp & Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra
Yeshi Dolma is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between Tenzin Choegyal from Tibet and Australian Katherine Philp. They...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds
Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver grew up listening to the calls of the curlew. It was a sound that made such...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
ECHO
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
