Reviews
Amber Sands
An Ireland-based, Austrian-born fiddle player and composer, Schwab's solo debut comes after globe-hopping collaborations with the likes of Austrian string...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014
Canta, Violino!
The violin most associated with Brazilian music is probably the rabeca, an instrument commonly played in the folky forró music...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2018
The Rough Guide to African Music for Children
As the grandfather of a one-year-old, with a second grandchild on the way, this reviewer has been eagerly searching for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013
Trinidad-Calypso 1939-59
This double CD meanders across 20 years of Trinidad and Tobago musical history offering a warm, humorous chronicle of a...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2012
Legend of Funaná
Due to its rural origin, funaná was forbidden for years in Cape Verde – most notably in Santiago, where it...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2016
Many a Thousand
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
This third studio album from the Norfolk-born folk duo follows their impressive 2016 release, Night Hours. It contains all the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018
The Essential AR Rahman
If the bansuri (flute) is his magic wand then the symphonic orchestra is his playground. The seamlessness with which AR...
Reviewed by Rafay Mahmood in issue: June/2018
Classics of My Soul
Like his compatriot Bonga, Waldemar Bastos is an Angolan in exile – living in Portugal after fleeing his homeland when...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Sea Song Sessions
Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter
All aboard with the salty crew of Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter, launching the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Âwât
Having met in Marseille in 2016, Shadi Fathi (setar and shurangiz) and Bijan Chemirani (zarb, daf, percussion) have cultivated a...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: August/September/2022
