Reviews
Resonance/Dissonance
A solo oud recording is an ambitious undertaking for any player. Even if you can hold your listeners’ attention for...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Ready for the Times
Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow
Last year, rootsy singer-guitarist Williams (US-born but now resident in the UK) teamed up with violinist Catlow (known for his...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2022
World Routes: On The Road
World Routes (currently broadcast on Sunday evenings) is BBC Radio 3’s flagship world music programme. And to my knowledge, there...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Never Stop Moving
The lead singer with the folk-rock institution known as Oysterband, John Jones is pictured striding purposefully across a panoramic landscape,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2015
Las Fuerzas Almadas
Dat Garcia is the first solo female artist on Buenos Aires’ ZZK Records, which has spearheaded a neo-electro-folk scene in...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022
Mayas: Révélation d’un Temps Sans Fin
This raw-sounding compilation was specially produced for a 2014/2015 exhibition on the Mayas at the Quai Branly museum in Paris....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2015
The Art of the Ajaeng Sanjo
The Yueshu, a 12th-century Chinese encyclopedia of music, refers to the Chinese ajaeng as being a zither that ‘creaks’. The...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2013
Eastern Moon Rising
Serbian sax player Kovač is fond of wearing an incandescent pink suit. It's perhaps not the garb you'd expect: there...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014
Mediterasian
This young Italian Gypsy jazz guitarist was ‘hooked for life’ on first hearing Django Reinhardt as a 16-year-old. During a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2019
