Reviews
Beyond Breath
The liner notes that come with the CD claim this is ‘Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism.’ The ‘Indo’ of this description...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Mujeres de Arena y Otras Historias
Amilcar Soto Rodriguez, Susana Baca & I Solisti Veneti
Amilcar Soto Rodriguez grew up as part of a musical family in Villa El Salvador on the Peruvian coast, a...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard
Alexander Fedoriouk is a Ukrainian cimbalom player, currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Eastern...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Expansions
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band are a German steel pan band that have earned a reputation for giving a Trinidad...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Caricias
Slovenian singer-songwriter Katja Šulc’s career began in 2008 with a homage to Mila Kačič, a poet celebrated in her homeland,...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Varokaa! Hengenvaara
Suistamon Sähkö exist in their own colourful world and, every so often, I’m glad to say, they let us in....
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Tree Dimensional Tunes
Former Finnish ballet dancer Maarika Autio went to West Africa to study kora and the diatonic balafon, which is rarely...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Characters
Flo Perlin may cite diverse musical influences, given her extensive world travel and her Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, but in...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Not Leaving Quietly
Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Holo Voyage: Inception
Inception is the inaugural release in the Holo Voyage series by Jivamukti Music, which aims to fuse devotional Sanskrit hymns...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
