Here's an 18th-century fashion that needs reviving: the dance fan. Women took fans to dances to send elaborate signals as...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2018
Lindigo are a band firmly in touch with their roots, but that's not to say they aren't moving forward. For...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Take a voice steeped in Breton tradition, team it with two musicians from a younger generation, and have another look...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: November/2017
‘Set against a starry desert backdrop,’ Tidhar says, ‘my music is a meeting between me and the oud.’ True to...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
This is an album that has me very much in two minds. It's a fusion of Gnawa music from Morocco...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020
Shammi Pithia says he owes a debt to fellow British Asian musician Nitin Sawhney. On the evidence of his 16-track...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
This double CD is a fascinating mix. The legendary lyra player Ross Daly and his student, the equally brilliant musician...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2018
The Birmingham-based Old Dance School’s debut album Forecast was full of the first flush of recording excitement; a follow-up was...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Peter Knight is the fiddle player in Steeleye Span but, since those folk– rock pioneers have been ploughing the same...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
An elusive but tremendously significant figure from the thrilling UK folk scene of the 1960s and 70s, Briggs has barely...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2018
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