It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
This album brings together the folk music of England and Turkey in a rich and rousing blend. Singer, violinist and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012
In the two decades and more since the 18-year-old Joachim Cooder played percussion alongside Ry Cooder on Buena Vista Social...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Self-defined as ‘Galician folk Druids,’ the five gifted musicians that make up Sangre de Muerdago show anti-interest in being fashionable...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2021
Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
Gamelan degung is one of the smaller types of gamelan ensembles. This disc, recorded between 1972 and 1973, features two...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2016
This is an unusual and adventurous project in which two bands have been formed in order to re-imagine a mixture...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2020
Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2015
This is the largest compilation of recordings by ET Mensah that anyone has ever seen. It means that, perhaps for...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Apr/May/2015
Gochag Askarov & Pierre de Trégomain
Gochag Askarov is a top singer of mugham, the sophisticated vocal tradition of Azerbaijan. Although recorded in concert in Baku's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2017
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