Reviews
Crazy Groove
Internationally renowned for his work with Miriam Makeba and Toots Thielemans, and for popularising forró music in Brazil, the Brazilian...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Grandad's Favorite
Instantly likeable, this album gets off to a cracking start with a raucous rendition of the classic ‘Jawbone’. Grandad's Favorite...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Khun Narin is the latest band to emerge from Thailand's north-east region, Isan, following the popularity of numerous YouTube uploads...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Nightshade
This is one of the most spare recordings I have heard in some time. It is, very simply, fiddler Bryony...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Jag Changa
When the folk-rocker from Mysore, Raghu Dixit, launched himself on an unsuspecting world in 2008, he didn’t take no for...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Paris Session
Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli keyboardist Idan Raichel have followed up their 2012 debut with an equally richly...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Blikkspor
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Master
Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan
The West has been actively seeking out musical meetings with the East ever since Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Nine Decades Vol IV: A Night at St John the Divine
Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya testifies in the liner notes to the particular ‘magical, transcendent experience’ of her husband performing in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
In the Kingdom of Dub
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed by Michael Brown in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
