Reviews
Folk Singer-Humdinger: Just About as Good as it Gets!
This collection of 45 tracks recorded by Dylan between 1961 and 62 is not an officially sanctioned release, but neither...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
The Rough Guide to Women of the World
In contrast to many of the Rough Guides, which focus on one specific genre or artist, this was perhaps an...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: June/2019
A Viagem Das Horas
This is a reissue of music from a reclusive Brazilian musician who was long assumed dead or ‘disappeared’ by the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2021
Lulu
In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
Clare Sands
Galway-born multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Clare Sands has been making a name for herself on the Irish and international live circuit...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2022
Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chants From Aleppo
Last year Jason Hamacher, a punk drummer from Washington DC, released NAWA: Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs from Aleppo,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Alrededor de la Húmisha: La Música de los Conjuntos Típicos Amazónicos de Perú
From the mid-1960s, musicians in Peru’s Amazon region began to record the hybrid folk styles that had evolved over five...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Myth of the Drum
Jone Takamäki, Umut Çağlar & Fahrettin Aykut
This gloriously unfettered improvised jam – split into two halves – finds Fahrettin Aykut, former drummer with Turkish psychonauts Baba Zula,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
Wonderland
The first thing that hits you is the voice. Bright, clear, high-pitched, as sharply faceted as polished amethyst, tinged with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
Surfing Times
Odd to think that a nation as staid and wealthy as Norway could produce a band as raucous as Los...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
