Lucas Romero is a member of Gitano Family, a Spanish band based in Arles, Provence, whose 2005 Spring Hill release...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: August/2017
During World War I, the officer class attempted to suppress the marching song ‘If You Want to See the General’,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Here Cypriot vocalist and percussionist Vassilis Philippou has put together an excellent first album, embedded firmly in the traditions of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2021
Take Yo Time is the first duo album from Ben Hunter (fiddle, vocals) and Joe Seamons (banjo, guitar, vocals) produced...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015
Nour Ali Elahi (1895-1975) deserves to be much better known than he is. The fact that he has just been...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
The langeleik is one of the more unusual members of an instrumental family that can be loosely described as ‘plank...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
There is surely no sound more richly redolent of 20th-century Arabic music than the great, swooning Egyptian orchestras that accompanied...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022
Spanish-speaking South America's African music remains a largely untold story. For more than two centuries the culture of those descended...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
The extensive liner notes for this two-CD set, with lyrics, tout its achievement of ‘bringing together the music of the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: April/2023
This is a real find: a remarkable family trio comprising Jan Malisz and his two children,12-year-old Zuzanna and 16-year-old Kacper,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2015
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