Reviews
Magic Spirit Quartet
As one of the leaders of the Gnawa revival and its incursions into fusion, Majid Bekkas has stressed the importance...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2020
The Thread
Two years on from their live debut, the 12-strong Band of Burns convened in the Scottish Highlands to put their...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
Apocalypse Across the Sky
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
The story of Jajouka in the West begins with William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, who were their conduit to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
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Yewoulen (Wake Up)
Bringing together members of the Senegalese-born singer Biram Seck's Jant Band and French guitarist Thibaut Remy's London-based African-European collective Awale,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
Huam
A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020
The Ripple Effect
A dozen years ago, the American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck took a journey across Africa to research the origins of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
Ufulu 1991-1997
In urgent need of a bucketful of wholesome joy with none of the risks of eternal damnation? Katawa Singers have...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
Westward the Light
There's a perception of the current crop of young Scottish trad bands that paints them all as playing their own...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
The Wolf of Baghdad Memoir of a Lost Homeland
The Wolf of Baghdad is an ambitious and beautifully executed motion-comic that tells the story of Carol Isaacs’ Iraqi-Jewish family...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Folk Music of China Vol 4: Songs of Guangxi
This is a rare recording of some lesser-known musical traditions from Guangxi, China. The album presents authentic folk songs of...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: May/2020
