Reviews
Unknown Nearness
Misagh Joolaee is an Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player based in Berlin. His solo album Ferne (2019) was surely the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
Prayer’s Tale: Taiko Drums & Asian Percussion
Joji Hirota | Joji Hirota & The London Taiko Drummers
Joji Hirota is a percussionist, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) player and vocalist who has been presenting Japanese music to worldwide audiences...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2021
This is How the Ladies Dance
Battle of the Folk Bands winners at the 2018 Edinburgh Tradfest, Glasgow-based five-piece Eabhal originally came together on the isle...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2019
Future Sound of Ukraine: Borsh Division
As Vlad Trotsky, theatre director and conceptual genius behind DakhaBrakha, once put it: ‘Old Europe is tired and cynical and...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
Folk Music of China, Vol 2: Folk Songs of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
This second volume of Naxos World's compendium of Chinese folk music focuses on songs from Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang province...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2020
S’AII Vibration
This is the third album from Niwel Tsumbu, a Congolese guitarist, composer and vocalist who has been based in Ireland...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Disconnected in New York City
Last December, Los Lobos played a three-night residency at NYC’s intimate City Winery. These normally plugged-in Los Angeleno rockers were...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Path of Stones
A member of Solas, Usher's Well and the crack trio of McCusker, McGoldrick and Doyle, as well as an assured...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Karsilama
From a Turkish word meaning ‘meeting’ or ‘welcome’ comes the title of this resolutely acoustic album. The trio, based on...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2019
