Reviews
Soft Power
AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire
AJ Holmes grew up in East London and has lived in Hackney for the past 15 years. It's an ethnically...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Baladi Blues 2
Guy Schalom is one of the UK's leading percussionists in klezmer and Arabic music, having played with the Klezmatics, Natacha...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2011
Sketches of Ethiopia
What’s in a name? Well, the album’s two longest tracks, ‘Assosa Derache’ and ‘Motherland Abay’, both composed, arranged and produced...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
City of Refuge
Though she’s a recent addition to their catalogue, Rounder Records could present banjoist, vocalist, and songwriter Abigail Washburn as an...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2011
Electro Classical
The son of a leading Hindustani vocalist and revered tabla player, Bickram Ghosh first came to prominence with Ravi Shankar's...
Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: July/2011
Newcomer
As a young Gráinne Brady was learning the fiddle from her dad in County Cavan, she was also enraptured by...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2021
Isan Lam Plearn
Angkanang Kunchai with Ubon-Pattana Band
Thai popular music compilers Maft Sai and Chris Menist of Sound of Siam fame have now released a solo-artist compilation,...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: October/2014
Flat as the Earth
Here's a welcome surprise from Belfast: traditional Irish music filtered through an easy-going 1960s West Coast vibe, with a splash...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2018
Receiver
Receiver begins with a fiddle drone, as if this has been going on already and you have happened upon it....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2020
