Reviews
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger
Three years ago Kronos Quartet released an album titled Folk Songs, a journey into Appalachian tradition featuring guest singers Sam...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Wake Up Calls
The son of scientist Rupert Sheldrake and voice therapist Jill Purse, multiinstrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake has already released an EP and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2020
I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)
Pianist Pete Rodriguez is one of the pioneers of Nuyorican music – Puerto Rican musicians in New York City –...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020
Un Canto por México, Vol 1
Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade is one of those superstars who makes the rest of us feel idle and talentless. She...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020
Delhi to Damascus
This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2020
Nomadic Spirit
For two decades, and across five albums, La Caravane Passe (The Caravan Passes) has delivered a music steeped in Balkan...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2020
TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019
Each year, the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year’s six finalists form a band with the previous...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: November/2020
Maguidala
After the success of their compilation Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s earlier in the year, Bongo Joe...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
