Reviews
Songs of Lalon Shah
The Bengali poet Lalon Shah, popularly known as Moner Manush (Man of the Heart), is the most celebrated of the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017
The Tabla Project
Sam Evans' The Tabla Project isn't as groundbreaking as it is refreshing. Every track has a character of its own...
Reviewed by Rafay Mahmood in issue: May/2019
Loving a Fool
This debut album, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, is a masterclass in presenting old and new side by side. Tumbling...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2014
Turrys
Singer Ruth Keggin is a committed campaigner for the Manx language and her debut album Sheear (reviewed in #108), featuring...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2016
Changys Baglaash
Khöömei Beat are a young Tyvan (also spelt Tuvan) quintet formed in 2017 who have grown up witnessing the acclaim...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2022
The Waters and the Wild
The first two tracks of this third album from the Dorset duo largely sum up the whole set. ‘The Hour...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2018
Smile Som Sumarsole
Hallingdal is a Norwegian valley whose music is traditionally dominated by the Hardanger fiddle, and hailing is the name of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Rwanda is My Home
This is a very enjoyable yet remarkably melancholic release by a four-piece acoustic group from Rwanda. Part of the charm...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2015
Family
Eneida Marta is perhaps the best known female singer from Guinea-Bissau, a diva whose golden, wide-ranging voice – an instrument...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
A Path of Light
When Jeff Adler sat down to write a song as a gift for his friend's daughter on the occasion of...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: October/2019
