Reviews
Mayday
In the middle of this excellent album two songs exemplify its sophistication. In ‘The Factory Girl’, a woman rejects the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Agam
This is an enjoyable, if not shatteringly novel, collaboration between a couple of musicians who met by chance in a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia
Like field research in an anthropological journal, the album Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia often comes across like a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds
It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Kjeringe i Snodrevet
The langeleik is one of the more unusual members of an instrumental family that can be loosely described as ‘plank...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko
The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Christian Life: The Definitive Louvin Brothers Story
It is impossible to overstate the importance of Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (1924-65) and Charlie Elzer Loudermilk (1927-2011), aka The Louvin...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Poetry and Music of Ashiqs
After several CDs of mugham, Felmay's excellent series of Azerbaijani music turns to the country's other traditional form – the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Thrush in the Storm
It's been five years since the last studio offering from Irish supergroup Dervish, which makes The Thrush in the Storm...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
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Canción Nueva (Omaggio a Victor Jara)
What passes for a tribute, or omaggio, is, as often as not, simply cashing-in by lesser (or at least less...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
