Reviews
Jumbie in the Jukebox
‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013
The Sea is My Brother
The fourth studio album from Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas is a concept album about the sea....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Turn to Fray
This debut from the Brighton duo of Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti is the latest release from the prolific Sussex...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2019
Parcel of Rogues
It is difficult to provide fresh interpretations of the songs of Robert Burns. But with only her second album Edinburgh-based...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2012
Orion Congregation
Ahmed Ag Kaedy is perhaps best known as one of the four musicians featured in Mali Blues, a documentary examining...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Bet
Bet is the second offering from Jerusalem-based world music fusion band AndraLaMoussia. Both the album title and the band name...
Reviewed by Barry Davis in issue: March/2012
Emergency of the Female Kind
Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles
Mixing amped up accordion with dynamic percussion, Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles are certainly bringing something new to the table....
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023
Crossing Roots
Ralf Siedhoff & Manuel Delgado meet the Karnataka College of Percussion
Nineteen years ago, Spanish flamenco guitarist Manuel Delgado and German guitarist Ralf Siedhoff teamed up with South Indian Karnatic musicians...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: April/2020
Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds
A few months after completing filming for yet another major musicological project, multi-instrumentalist-folklorist Mike Seeger discontinued treatment he had been...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2020
Vadhya Sunadha Pravaham
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Mala Chandrashekar & Jaishree Jaira
It used to be unusual to come across new releases of Karnatic (South Indian) music because North Indian, or Hindustani...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
