Reviews
Songs Inspired by the Film The Beatles and India
Here are two discs to accompany the new documentary film on the highly influential period when The Beatles visited India...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2021
Blue White Gold
It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues
Jug bands were one of the phenomenons of 1920s and 30s blues, their members being so poor they literally blew...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
S H I R A N
S H I R A N was born in Israel but is half-Yemeni and half-Iraqi. And that comes through on...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: April/2019
Radio Salone
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's reggae band, the Refugee All Stars, emerged from the refugee camps born of the brutal civil war that...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2012
Ketan
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017
Flash of the Spirit
Jon Hassell is a contemporary classical minimalist musician who forged a deep engagement with music from India and West Africa....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
