This re-release is a recording of the first concert given by the now-forgotten sitar maestro Pramod Kumar. Trained in tabla,...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2017
Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid
Canadian folk-fusion outfit Sultans of String have gone for the word-play double – both band name and album name –...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2016
On a trip to Cape Verde last year I found myself being chastised by another journalist for mentioning the search...
Reviewed by Clive Davis in issue: May/2018
With its gorgeous retro cover art and deliberate golden-age smarts Side A was recorded using ribbon microphone technology –...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
Chloe Matharu is a young Edinburgh singer with a rich inheritance. Her father is from the Punjab, while her mother...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Lyrically original songs and delicate instrumentals mix and merge on Two Fine Days, from young duo Jack McNeill and Charlie...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012
Gwyn Glân Beibl Budr opens with ‘Myn Mair’, a prayer that is at least 500 years old, sung on the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg
Lorin Sklamberg (The Klezmatics) and Frank London (Klezmer Brass Allstars) collaborate here yet again, on Tsuker-zis (Sugar-Sweet). Both musicians have...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
There is one piece of advice that everyone should follow: never meet your heroes. Fortunately, António Zambujo ignored that and...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2017
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