Reviews
Talk about the Weather
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
Here is yet another product of the music factory that is the Folk and Traditional Music degree course at Newcastle...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Erguvan
This album consists mostly of folk repertoire from the Aegean region of Turkey, collected in the field by musicologist Ali...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Rumi Symphony Project Cycle 1: Untold
Hafez Nazeri is the son of the renowned Iranian-Kurdish singer and instrumentalist Sharam Nazeri. He has set up an ambitious...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Beware the Fetish
The Kinshasa collective's second album is a follow-up to their 2008 debut, uniting the approaches of five ethnic groups. It's...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
May
You may well have seen and enjoyed The Sweet Lowdown on their first UK tour recently. They’re an award-winning, all-female...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Imaginarium
As the daughter of one of the Assad Brothers, a world-beating Brazilian classical guitar duo, it's perhaps no surprise that...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Morning Key
Although their 2012 debut, Way on Up the Hill, was impressive enough to garner acclaim from the likes of Bob...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Revival
Bellowhead's Revival begins, typically, with a couple of sea shanties, ‘Let Her Run’ and ‘Roll Alabama’. The calls and responses...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Baladi Blues Reloaded
Baladi music lies at the root of Arab pop music. It's a popular Egyptian style that developed during the 1920s,...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
