Reviews

Pipers

Clarinet Factory

I’m a big fan of the clarinet. Of all the wind instruments it has the widest and most varied range...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

West Meets East: Indian Music and its Influence on the West

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The bottom has rather dropped out of the market for world music compilations but just occasionally a valuable collection can...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Woodlands

Woodlands

Justyna Krzyzanowska’s harp provides the dancing rhythmic opening to this album, which is then accompanied by Kristina Leesik’s fiddle, bringing...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Paradise Cinema

Paradise Cinema

Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie recorded this album in Dakar, Senegal, influenced by the sound of mbalax that played until six...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

The Birth and Death of Stars

MZAZA

MZAZA are a six-piece band with an Australian-European line-up and an aesthetic that recalls the free-spirited romanticism of Lhasa de...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Saqqara

Esbe

Saqqara is the fifth studio album by the London-based composer, producer and vocalist Esbe. Trained in classical guitar at the...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Global Control/Invisible Invasion

AMMAR 808

Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef, aka AMMAR 808, created an extraordinary album Maghreb United, a Top of the World in...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Boring & Weird Historical Music

Telemachus

As hard to categorise as it is to stop listening to, Boring & Weird Historical Music is a genre-defying aural...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Peacock

Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos

The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Rivages

Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki

This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...

Reviewed in issue October/2020