Reviews
The New Mine
Soon after he’d formed Matthews Southern Comfort, ex-Fairport Convention singer songwriter Iain Matthews enjoyed a million-selling No 1 hit in...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Saba Sounds
Guo Gan, Zoumana Tereta, Richard Bourreau
Here's a trio bringing bowed instruments from different lands. Guo Gan unwraps his erhu (a Chinese two-stringed spike fiddle), Zoumana...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Vodou Alé
Chouk Bwa were a revelation upon their debut album, 2015's Se Nou Ki La! (reviewed in #110), a wonderful set...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Future Rust Vol 1
New label Future Rust offers this compilation as an immersion into the subculture of the handpan, commonly called hang. The...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Black Atlantica Edits
Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Spiders Tango
Kuljit Bhamra & Davide Giovannini (featuring The Villiers Quartet)
Kuljit Bhamra's quicksilver innovative, virtuosic talent is well known, well respected and very much enjoyed by tabla afficionados, percussionists and...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
For this release, four musicians from Maastricht, the Netherlands get together and jam, playing disco, funk and rock filtered through...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Insides Revealed
Insides Revealed, the debut album by Taiwanese indigenous singer Sauljaljui, takes inspiration from her Paiwan tribal roots, and combines traditional...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
El Camino de Los Vientos
French-born agronomist Matthieu Saglio traded soil and crops for the sweetly sorrowful sound of the cello when he moved to...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
