Reviews
No Boundaries
Two decades into her career, this is London-based Shapla Salique's third solo album – and her best yet. Her voice...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: December/2016
Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics
We live in a glorious age, in which record companies are eager to open up their vaults in order to...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2016
Rio Bossa
Even if you weren’t all Rio’d-out after the wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, you’d probably need another bossa nova compilation about as...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2016
Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined
It's fair to say that Gilles Peterson was bowled over when he heard the lost Brazilian classic Tam… Tam… Tam…!...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2016
Postfolklor
As the album title suggests, Ponk, a Czech acoustic power trio of cimbalom, violin and double bass, take a powerfully...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016
Symbiosis
Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton are two of the most competent and accomplished pipe and whistle players on the current...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016
Live Wires
Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016
Bite the Bullet
Of all the retro bands out there, from Tokyo to New York, the nutty London boys of Madness probably did...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016
Eilov
Mountains, glaciers, fjords – this is the landscape of Jølster in western Norway, just north of Bergen, where Gro Marie...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: December/2016
Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music
Growing up in Maoist China, Mei Han had to undergo numerous hardships to study her chosen instrument, the guzheng (21-stringed...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2016
