Reviews
Hearts & Minds
Hearts & Minds begins with a riff reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’. Which is somewhat surprising, given that Lakeman described...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2010
Along the Silk Road: Ancient and Modern Music for the Kugo
Ancient and modern music for the what? Listening blind to this instrument, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for the...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: July/2010
Things That Fly
If you like peppery banjo picking and close male harmonies – and you should if you're a bluegrass fan –...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2010
Nouvelle Calédonie: Voix des Rivages et des Montagnes
Music from New Caledonia – a little-known French colony in Melanesia, midway between Fiji and Australia – is, well, little...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010
Acoustic Accordions
Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek and Marcin Galazyn. Since their debut CD, Pictures from...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2010
Ghana Funk from the 70s
Ghana, like Benin, might not have had a Fela Kuti or a Hugh Masekela, but it always had the funk....
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2010
Bride of the Zar
Rango is the name of a wooden xylophone and of a tradition that stretches back to Sudanese tribal culture, to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010
Chaal Baby
Hailing from überchic Brooklyn in the melting pot of New York City, Red Baraat have a studied multi-ethnic cool reminiscent...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010
Music of Central Asia Vol Nine: In the Footsteps of Babur
This ninth CD in the impressive Aga Khan Trust for Culture series of music from Central Asia takes Babur, the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Shoshan
Ready for something new and exciting? How about qawwali (Sufi devotional song), Rajasthani folk singing, Indian classical music, flamenco and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010
