Reviews
Passages
Constantinople expands the constellation of projects begun in 1998 by Iranian-Canadian setar (lute) player Kiya Tabassian. Passages features three other...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: November/2016
The Treasure of our Ancestors
This album is a decent enough attempt to document the folk music of Madagascar's Betsileo region, made in the village...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: November/2016
Mornas de Cabo Verde
For the past half-century, the languid and lush musical genre morna has been successfully exported from its birthplace, a volcanic...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2016
Moda Velha
During the 20th century Portugal was under the gloomy spell of one of the world's longest dictatorships – highly conservative...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016
Nyn
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis
Stassinopoulou has aptly described herself as a ‘Balkan ethno-trance artist’ and a practitioner of techno-folk psychedelia. I’ve been listening to...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: November/2016
Kidayú
This is a tour de force and I can’t seem to stop listening to it. Peter Solo and his band...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2016
Ten Shades of Blues
Indigenous singer-songwriter Kev Starkey has seen a bit of life. Of mixed heritage – partly Adnyamathanha (Flinders Ranges in South...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2016
The Fox
Best known as the guitarist and fiddler from Balkan mayhem merchants Sheelanagig, this intimate acoustic duo setting allows Kit Hawes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2016
El Viaje
What a lovely album this is: a work of fluid yet inventive piano compositions rooted in classical, nodding to jazz...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2016
Pete Seeger in England
For most of the 1950s, Pete Seeger was unable to travel outside the US due to the persecution of senator...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2016
