What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2018
The first two tracks of this third album from the Dorset duo largely sum up the whole set. ‘The Hour...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2018
Here, at last, is the long-awaited new album from that remarkable duo, the classically trained Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018
Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018
Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018
Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg
The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2018
Ebo Taylor has been doing his stuff for more than 60 years now, so he knows how to make an...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2018
The latest album from BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), Emakhosini, takes the listener on a journey that masterfully embodies the...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: May/2018
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
There is perhaps a word missing – ‘dramatis’ – from the title of the Dartmoor-based duo's fifth album, for they...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2018
Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018
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