This five-piece fiddle band from Norway got together a dozen years ago, meeting when most of them were studying at...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Melody Makers, on the surface, look like Jamaica's version of the Jacksons. Featuring four of Bob Marley's numerous children...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal
With the cinematic sweep of an epic, and with the steady, enduring relentlessness of the rhythms of the natural world,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022
In #114 we reviewed an Ocora CD of Aka Pygmy music that focused on their instrumental accompaniment. This latest album...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Archie Churchill-Moss started playing the diatonic button accordion when he was nine, two decades ago. He is a virtuoso, in...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2023
It's hard not to sound like a broken record when talking about the albums of today's technically gifted, highly adept...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: March/2013
North India’s favourite percussion instrument, the tabla, has always been relegated to being an accompaniment and it was the subservient,...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2022
From the opening title-track, a brilliantly rendered bluegrass cover of Eric Clapton’s song from his 1998 LP Pilgrim, to the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2021
A Passing Glimpse is the third in a trilogy of albums by British Columbia’s log cabin-dwelling, banjo-crafting, old-time music duet,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2012
Despite a career stretching back to the mid-80s, this is among the first of singer-songwriter and percussionist Mart’na’lia’s albums to...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
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