Reviews
Breathbox
I was lucky enough to be at a concert given by the accordionist Antti Paalanen at the Sibelius Academy in...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2011
Open on Sundays
You'll get it cheaper at Duck Soup’s Gramophone and Cycle Stores, 18 Station Road, West Croydon.’ So proclaims the sign...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
Awalin
Steve Shehan is a man who has been there and done that, earning his crust playing percussion with Paul Simon,...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
A Matter of Life
The Penguin Café ensemble, led by Arthur Jeffes, son of Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes, has toured widely over the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Lanbousir
Lanbousir (L’Emb-ouchure) is Christine Salem’s fourth album of studio-recorded compositions in the traditional maloya style, for voice and percussion ensemble....
Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: Apr/May/2011
Diasporas
Ibrahim Maalouf’s family fled the civil war in Lebanon in the early 1980s to settle in the suburbs of Paris....
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
All of You
On this album Iranian pianist Hooshyar Khayam and ney player Amir Eslami join forces in a recording of largely improvised...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2011
Sétimo Fado
For an artist still only in her late 20s, it’s a remarkable achieve¬ment to be releasing a seventh album. The...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: Apr/May/2011
Room of Wonders
Where music explorer Bela Fleck once trod unknown ground with the banjo, taking it into jazz and popular music, Canadian...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2011
