Crossover albums don't often get one's pulse racing, and only two tracks on this album from the Japanese American koto...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2023
Mísia was integral to the new wave of fadistas in the 1990s, helping to revitalise the genre with new influences,...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2019
Recorded in a live setting, Upsurge, the new album from the Scott Wood Band, proves the group to be a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2015
Flamenco guitarist Niño Josele has made some fascinating excursions into jazz, particularly his exploration of pianist Bill Evan’s music on...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Damien Barber is the singer, concertina and guitar-player and ambitious imagin¬ation driving the Demon Barbers who, rather than concerts, present...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Ready for something new and exciting? How about qawwali (Sufi devotional song), Rajasthani folk singing, Indian classical music, flamenco and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010
Any compilation album with ‘Celtic’ in its title is almost certainly worth avoiding, though there are notable exceptions – Ellipsis...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013
When the definitive history of Irish folk music comes to be written, The Dubliners will loom large and long in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2013
The third edition of Strut's Nigeria 70 series contains another 13 crate-raiding tracks never previously issued outside of Nigeria –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2011
Having had his career derailed by civil war and Ebola, the blind Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi was reduced to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
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