Reviews
The Devil's Brides
Yale Strom is both a researcher into the history of Jewish klezmer music and an excellent violinist. This CD features...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Olli Goes to Bollywood
Olli & The Bollywood Orchestra
Nothing if not experimental, Olli & The Bollywood Orchestra have made a third album every bit as bizarre as its...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: April/2016
Tumbuka Voices
Emerging from the same cultural and geographical milieu as the recent Malawi Mouse Boys’ album, Umoza (meaning ‘togetherness’) is a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Indigo Soul
A confident and exhilarating album, Indigo Soul suffers slightly from a trade description issue. Unnati is presented as a ‘London...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
Yen Ara
Ebo Taylor has been doing his stuff for more than 60 years now, so he knows how to make an...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2018
Big Blue Desert
It is a measure of Mehdi Haddab's intensity and generosity that the oud player conjures an imaginary galaxy in the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Gypsy Killer
This strangely named disc draws on the repertoire of the great Romanian singer Maria Tanase (1913-1963), who is held in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
From Our World to Yours
This second duo recording by Gao Hong and Issam Rafea – a follow-up to 2018's excellent Life As Is –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2020
For Tradition Turn to Nedunuri
These three discs comprise an entire concert performance by one of Karnatic music's greatest singers of the 20th century, Nedunuri...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2015
Napot Holdat Csillagot
Pál is a new voice on the traditional Hungarian music scene, endorsed by the Hagyományok Hása (Hungarian Heritage House), the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
