Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014
So-called ‘folk revivals’ come and go as regularly as the seasons, for this is music that never dies or fades....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2014
The occasionally forced-sounding jollity of some klezmer might make it a bit of an acquired taste for many, but this...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014
This album not only has some wonderful music but is also a valuable ethnographic and historical record of the culture...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2014
These two latest releases from Buda are in some respects polar opposites, though connected by a common theme. One is...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2014
In 2013 the southern Vietnamese chamber music genre don ca tai tu was officially recognised as intangible cultural heritage by...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: October/2014
The liturgical chanting of the Tibetan monasteries is one of the great ‘endangered species’ of cultural preservation in Tibet, so...
Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: October/2014
This is a pair of musicians steeped in the folk music and traditions of the south-west – Becki Driscoll comes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2014
In the two years since the release of their duo debut, The Queen's Lover, guitarist Russell and fiddle-player Algar have...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014
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