Reviews
Baladi Blues 3: The Art of Baligh Hamdi
Guy Schalom & The Baladi Blues Ensemble
Baladi is a very particular Egyptian fusion. The name literally means ‘my country’ and its roots lie in the rural...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Twinklings of Hope
I first heard Iranian sisters Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat in Istanbul in 2006. The power in their voices, so perfectly...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Soundshades
This is an intriguing album with moments of genuine excitement, beauty and ingenuity. Soundshades is the first recording from Yaron...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
This album chronicles the only existing complete concert performance by the inestimably important American folk musician during the period in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Break It Up
Rura are one of the most promising and interesting young bands to emerge recently and this, their debut album, establishes...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Way Up On The Hill
Here’s a jaunty set of songs from the Sussex-based Appalachian-themed band Hatful of Rain, rolling through a tidal wave of...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Other Shore
Few artists are as cosmopolitan as Marta Topferova. Born and partly raised in Czechoslovakia, this 30-something singer-songwriter emigrated to the...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Chasing the Light
The Birmingham-based Old Dance School’s debut album Forecast was full of the first flush of recording excitement; a follow-up was...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
