Reviews
Bangalore Dreams
After success with her dazzling acoustic Karnatic trio record, Call of Bangalore, Jyotsna Srikanth returns with a short album that...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Places of Consequence
Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: October/2021
Maresia
Maresia (meaning ‘Sea Air’ or ‘Sea Foam’ in Portuguese) is a visionary and poetical offering from Bari singer, composer and...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: January/February/2023
The Key
What's not to love about Blazin' Fiddles? Comprising some of the best fiddlers on the Scottish traditional music scene today...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Teenage Dreams
Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2021
Orfeo
Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party
The title-track of Orfeo is a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice story dating from the 13th century, via a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
The Invention of Colour
When someone as great as the renowned Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, describes a compatriot's music as ‘like a perfume of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Afro Rock Vol 1
Originally released in 2001 on the Kona label, Afro Rock Volume 1 now receives a thoroughly welcome reissue on Strut,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010
Silêncio
It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
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 by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2020
