Reviews
Love Songs and Dance Music from Loristan
Heshmatollah Rajabzadeh, Nezam Rajabzadeh, The Aftab Group
Recordings of Iranian regional music released outside Iran have become rather sparse in recent years, so this new album by...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: October/2010
Who Say I Tire
As a Nigerian musician, composer and bandleader who reached his peak in the early 70s, Segun Bucknor has inevitably been...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2010
Psalms of Loneliness
The tanbur is a sacred instrument for many Kurdish people. It has a powerful voice, as a statement of cultural...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2010
Koonyum Sun
How many people who’ve appeared in the 70-odd issues of Songlines have ever been anointed with the title ‘World’s Sexiest...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
Second Avenue Square Dance
Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Second Avenue Square Dance is the second CD on Traditional Crossroads by Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys (Barry...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2010
The Wages
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
The initial signs are good – a three-piece country blues outfit from the back hills of Indiana with a clear...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
Tasca Beat
It’s little wonder that it took almost ten years for OqueStrada to release their first album. It wasn’t a question...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2010
Eusebio
Two years ago the Italian singer Giulia Tellarini and her chums were among the multi-national swarms of tourists strumming guitars...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Between 1972 and 1997, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra cut a unique and much¬loved swathe through that musical realm where folk,...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: October/2010
Chicken & Egg
The 13th studio album from one of contemporary America's most prolific, adventurous and adaptable folk/country musicians, Chicken & Egg is...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010
