Reviews
The Crowing
A striking album of fresh explorations into the more obscure corners and bridleways of English music and folklore, The Crowing...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2018
Rebelión Tropical: The Very Best of Fruko & Joe Arroyo
These tremendous songs from the Colombian legends – bass player, percussionist, producer and song-writer, Julio Ernesto Estrada Rincon (aka Fruko)...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: June/2011
El Alma de Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, the term jíbaro can refer positively to a mountain-dwelling rural worker or, snobbishly, to a supposedly ignorant...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
Vana
Originally a piper, on this, the sequel to his 2017 album, Sanctuary, the Treacherous Orchestra’s Ross Ainslie again flexes his...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: January/2021
Sirojiddin Juraev
Born near the Ferghana Valley, a critical point on the ancient Silk Road trading route, Sirojiddin Juraev is a contemporary...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2018
Ballads & Corridos 1949-1975
There are only a handful of truly mythic borders in the world and the Tex-Mex border is one of them....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Life as Is
Themes of uncertainty and impermanence run deep throughout this album, itself a product of an unlikely chance encounter between Syrian...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Lost Tapes
Every now and then a release sneaks out of the woodwork that nobody is prepared for. Strut have stumbled upon...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Devils and Wonders in Bali
At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2011
