Most of the music here consists of harps and nothing else. Yet this album is a little beauty. Twenty of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2010
Apneseth is on the move again. His previous albums have investigated a more purist Norwegian folk (even when he's penned...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2018
Since releasing theirsecond album, Brule Lentement [reviewedin #68], which wasinfluenced by TheClash as well as 1920s zydeco squeezebox supremo AmedeArdoin,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2011
Although he is best known for his work on some of Indian cinema's most celebrated soundtracks – including AR Rahman's...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2016
Rango is the name of a wooden xylophone and of a tradition that stretches back to Sudanese tribal culture, to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010
Chao told his biographer Peter Culshaw that he had always regarded French music as “bullshit”; for years he refused to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
No Brazilian singer has chronicled the unpretentious, good life of simple, working-class Rio more faithfully than Jorge Ben. For almost...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Danielle de Gruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim
After the plaintively beautiful but solitary sound of Benedicte Maurseth’s self-titled solo album (reviewed in the November 2019 issue, #152),...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
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