This suite of mainly instrumental music is an exemplary presentation of Tajik art music. Abdurashidov plays the sato, a (very)...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
Following his 1970s and 80s involvement with several local Melanesian string bands and the popular Papuan rock group Painim Wok,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023
Born in France to Ecuadorian parents, Nicola Cruz is one of a number of producers of recent years who have...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: March/2019
This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2016
With ancestral links to the small Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau, Polynesian group Te Vaka originally formed in New...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
The songs of Lead Belly were first popularised in Britain during the skiffle era of the mid-50s, when Lonnie Donegan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
Another varied collection from 1960s and 70s Venezuela courtesy of the duo El Drágon Criollo and his partner El Palmas,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2022
If you are familiar with Portuguese guitar, you should have by now come across the names of Artur and Carlos...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023
Otava Yo are a slightly eccentric Russian folk band from St Petersburg who like to play with the traditions and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
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