Reviews
Warato'o
Solomon Islands’ ensemble Narasirato may be panpipers, but forget any notion that this nine-piece group plays some sort of Melanesian...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012
Tangos Pendientes
The fourth track on this album is ‘Jacinto Chiclana’, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Its music is folksy and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Trio
The tanbur is a longnecked, fretted string instrument with a hemispheric body. It came to epitomise classical music for the...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2012
Picasso
Legendary French band The Gipsy Kings consist of two sets of brothers – the Baliardos and the Reyes. The Baliardos...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
The Moon has Risen: Zanzibara Vol 6
If you get a chance to see the Mtendeni Maulid Ensemble, don't miss it. They are a group of young...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2012
Voice of Ages
Nobody can say no to Paddy Moloney. From Mick Jagger to Ry Cooder, the list of unlikely collaborators corralled by...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
Ifetayo
Soundway Records have an impressive catalogue of rare groove reissues, many of them from Africa. But although there are African...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2012
Kai Tu Užaha?
I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Hole in the Universe
The banality of bureaucracy is not an exciting subject for a song but put through the creative mangle that is...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2012
Returning Minimalism: New Works for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
A bird sings and insects hum in the background. A metallophone begins playing a rapid three-beat pattern. Another, played with...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2012
