Reviews
Wake the Union
The latest album from Devon duo Steve Knightleyand Phil Beer exhibits their trademark concern for making folk music speak to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Music of Central Asia Vol 10: Borderlands – Wu Man & Master Musicians from the Silk Route
Since 2006, the Aga Khan Music Initiative has produced a series of albums highlighting the musical traditions of Central Asia,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Black Eagle
Based in New Zealand’s musically-vibrant capital Wellington, singer Iva Lamkum boasts a Samoan-Chinese bloodline, but it’s difficult to identify all...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Kadior Demb
Thiès, Senegal’s third largest city, is a sleepy town at a major railway junction and home to one of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Prophecy
Mulele is a UK-based guitarist working in a variety of styles including jazz, pop, hip-hop and world music. Although he...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Somewhere is Here!
The cover of the CD shows our two heroes – jazz guitarist Oren Neiman and rock guitarist Gilad Ben Zvi...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Vocalism
The Zimbabwean singer Vusa Mkhaya, now resident in Vienna, is part of the vocal trio Insingini, which released the rather...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Aduna
Malick Pathé Sow & Bao Sissoko
There has been a glut of recent albums featuring American and European musicians collaborating with their West African counterparts. Nobody...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Pecados Tropicales
You’d think six Latina women playing a punky cumbia with ‘queer’ in their band name had to be a good...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
