Trained to recite the Qur’an as he was being brought up, Alireza Ghorbani developed his vocal abilities at a young...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2015
The album's title means ‘The Key to my Home’ in the Ladino language of the Jews that were expelled from...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
This is Kelly Thoma's second solo album and, like her debut Anamkhara, it reveals her to be among the most...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2015
Kadialy Kouyaté & Leonard Jacome
The premise of this album may seem a little familiar: a cross-cultural harp collaboration between Senegalese kora maestro Kadialy Kouyaté...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2015
Built around the captivating voice of the Iranian-born singer Azam Ali, the fusion of Sufi mysticism and electronic trance beats...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
The Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab has been gaining momentum since she left Lahore for Berklee College of Music in 2005....
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: June/2015
Neil ‘Mad Professor’ Fraser returns with another dub album, a medium in which this apprentice of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry seems...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2015
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