Reviews
Cecil Sharp Project
Earlier this year, a remarkable ‘Who's Who’ of the new British folk scene assembled in London's Cecil Sharp House. Lined...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Iran: Music of the Persian Gulf
Many of Iran’s regional folk music traditions are still relatively unknown to world music audiences in Europe and North America....
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2010
Bantu Spaceship
Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe has witnessed something of a musical freeing up since the death of the revolutionary turned tyrant in 2019....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2023
El Alimento
Medical student turned padrino del funk, Cimafunk has been one of the hottest names in Cuban music since releasing his...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021
The Golden Angle
It's hard to know what to make of this album. David Benedict is clearly an extraordinarily gifted young musician, zipping...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Night Spirit Masters
Recorded live at night in the medina of Marrakech by Billy Youdelman using an Akai digital 12-track and produced by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Live in Nashville
This is a live recording of a 2013 concert on Lakha Khan's debut American tour, given in a Presbyterian church...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2015
Punch
On this eighth studio album from the long-running Scottish group, half of The Poozies are new to the party, and...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2018
Poetic Trance
Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa
Aziz Sahmaoui, Moroccan co-founder of the legendary Orchestre National de Barbès, is back for a third album with his group...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
The Reason Why Vol 1
Goran Kajfe Subtropic Arkestra
Perhaps feeling the need to explain himself after X/Y, Goran Kajfeš’ critically acclaimed but impossible-to-categorise album, The Reason Why Vol...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2013
