Reviews
Akoustikòs
Blending their southern Italian roots with influences and instruments from Arabia, North Africa and the Touareg people of the Sahara,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2018
Monologues
With Monologues, the Indian-born and Toronto-based duo of singer-composer Vandana Vishwas and her husband, the songwriter and musician Vishwas Thoke,...
Reviewed by Rolf Killius in issue: June/2013
Play Traditional Cajun Music
The Balfa Brothers were born into a very poor Cajun farming family in southern Louisiana and grew up both speaking...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Bone Reader
Washington DC isn't an obvious place to look for Afrobeat. Yet in the land of suits and carpeted corridors, Chopteeth...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sublime Ragas
A foremost protégé of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Kartik Seshadri has very rapidly emerged as one of the world's best...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2012
Pencaitland
The seven-strong folk collective from Edinburgh who have made their name blending Celtic folk songs with the old¬time string band...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Some Kind of Certainty
Breabach member and 2008 Young Traditional Musician of the Year award winner Ewan Robertson opens his debut release with a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
En Mi Piel
Flamenco artists continue to coin new genres. The Mallorca-born African gitana Concha Buika takes flamenco’s pained message and impassioned spirit...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
