Reviews
Norwegian Oud
Yinon Muallem | Yinon Muallem & Guy Mintus
Conceived and recorded throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Norwegian Oud is the latest album from oud player, percussionist, and composer Yinon...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2021
Spirit of Love
COB is the abbreviation of Clive’s Original Band though Cob, as the trio was sometimes called, is apt. Cob is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021
Nick Hart Sings Nine English Folk Songs
With a Ronseal matter-of-factness, this second album from Cambridgeshire folk singer Nick Hart does exactly what it says on the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
Our Latin Thing
This special edition package celebrates the 40th anniversary of a very special night. On Thursday August 26 1971, the stellar...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Tender Blues
Yoshio Machida plays the steel pan, but those expecting to hear a Japanese-influenced answer to the steel band music of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2016
Accordion in Americas
The poor squeezebox – if it's not a busker on autoplay, it's an off-the-peg cumbia band or a Seine-spoiling cliché-churner....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2016
SOAR
Here, at last, is the long-awaited new album from that remarkable duo, the classically trained Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018
Nuba Nova
Hamdi Benani, Mehdi Haddab & Speed Caravan
Mehdi Haddab’s rai-punk outfit Speed Caravan have somewhat escaped my attention since their brilliant 2008 debut Kalashnik Love, but this...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Rough Guide to Country Blues
Give this album the roughly five minutes it takes to run down the first two tracks – the deeply harrowing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
