Reviews
Olin Ennen
On her debut recording, Olin Ennen (which translates in Finnish to ‘I Was’), Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
This Pale
Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi, Shariq Mustafa
Sufi music exists in various forms in different parts of the Islamic world with differing music and poetry in various...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
The Sound Braka
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...
Reviewed in issue December/2021
Kamana
Now here's an odd one. Carlos Casas is a Spanish-born filmmaker and artist whose work encompasses film, sound and visual...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
In Light of India
Edinburgh-based sitar player and ethnomusicologist Alec Cooper plays his cards well on his debut album In Light of India by...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Tamburo Infinito
An album named Tamburo Infinito is fairly self-explanatory in its intentions. The seventh record from Italian multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Poso, it...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Blessed Sadness
Antoni O'Breskey has long been a prolific, border-denying, genre-splicing presence in his adopted Ireland. Italian-born with Argentinian roots, his musical...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Voices from the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)
Imagine ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ given voice through bowed solo bass, its opening notes rumbling like the subterranean calls...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
ID
The album cover says it all: a picture of the globe, the various continents composed of heads of human beings...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
