Reviews
Har Dam Sahara
Rafiki Jazz are a Sheffield-based band whose mission statement is to ‘create music that crosses cultural boundaries.’ Thankfully the results...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2026
Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt
Rannok's Michael Graubæk (fiddle and mandolin) and Theis Langlands (piano and pump organ) are both well-established musicians in the Danish...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2026
Inclined to be Red
Greg Russell is an English folk singer on a mission. With the boundless energy of youth, he has been racing...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2026
Resonance
The musical pedigree of Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby goes back to the late 1970s, when he founded the pioneering Aboriginal...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2026
The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues
World Music Network seem to issue their Rough Guides to The Blues at an almost monthly rate – which suggests...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2026
Souffles des Steppes
Henri Tournier & Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig
Souffles des Steppes (Breath of the Steppes) is the follow-up to the excellent 2015 album Souffles du Monde, on which...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2026
Tales of Indian Sarod
Pradeep Barot, Riccardo Battaglia, Federico Sanesi
Pradeep Barot studied under Annapurna Devi – a surbahar (bass sitar) virtuoso, daughter of the legendary Allauddin Khan and once...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: June/2026
Basant
Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2026
Mali Blues: The Film Soundtrack
This is the soundtrack to a documentary by the German filmmaker Lutz Gregor, which chronicles the return to Mali of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2026
Veer
Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha
Griselda Sanderson and Ricardo de Noronha met on stage a couple of years ago and have been making music together...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2026
