Reviews
From Baroque to Fado
When one puts it all together in the same sentence, it looks like a recipe for disaster: Portuguese baroque music,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2018
Kidayú
This is a tour de force and I can’t seem to stop listening to it. Peter Solo and his band...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2016
The Upstage Album
Oska Tee is a South African producer, composer and singer with a fine tenor voice, a thing for the club...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019
Storymap
Lau’s Kris Drever and Salsa Celtica’s Éamonn Coyne got together to record Storymap in Scotland last autumn, with guests including...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Ahimsa: Love is the Weapon of the Brave
Musicians from Kolkata, Los Angeles and Caracas – among them, three disciples of the late sitar legend Ravi Shankar –...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2016
Tunes from the North, Songs from the South
Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack
Anyone with an ear for the deeply complex and exquisitely subtle reciprocation between the banjo and fiddle will be dazzled...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2015
Live at the Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill
This first live album from the Bristol trio of Alex Vann, Pete Judge and Paul Bradley is also a recording...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2017
Rûwâhîne
Perched somewhere between the industrial-noise soundscapes of Throbbing Gristle, grungy club beats and a fairly obscure Saharan healing ritual of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017
Fretless
Soumik Datta is Britain’s brilliant young sarod (lute) star. He gave a stunning concert supporting Shivkumar Sharma at the Darbar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Anthologie du Patrimoine Phonographique Breton 1925-1960
This is a tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the post-war rebirth of Breton music: Hermann Wolf, who made some...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: December/2017
