Reviews
Mopepe Mama
Syssi Mananga is a Brussels-based singer-songwriter of Afro-pop leanings and Belgian and Congolese heritage whose debut, Retour aux Sources(Back to...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Be Here Whenever
Danielle de Gruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim
After the plaintively beautiful but solitary sound of Benedicte Maurseth’s self-titled solo album (reviewed in the November 2019 issue, #152),...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know
Full disclosure: your reviewer fully anticipated not raving about this album. While appreciating Rising Appalachia’s raison dêtre, my ears have...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Dance
Since her debut as a leader in 1986, the Munich-born New Yorker has recorded a further 23 albums, of which...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
The Voices and Bridges
The number of recording locations worldwide for this album is extraordinary, but perhaps that was the only way to create...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Mo Ashibi Magic: Live in Tokyo 1999
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Okinawan singer, guitarist and sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and world music nomad Bob Brozman came together in 1999 to record...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Timeline
This is an innovative recording from a Canadian husband-and-wife duo who quirkily insist on writing their name in lower case....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble
It took the Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble until their fifth album and tenth year to go eponymous. It takes time to know...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Is this title an exercise in assured bravado and chutzpah for this Geneva-based band’s fifth album, or is it a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
