Reviews
Serenity
Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan & Party
The shehnai (a double-reed wind instrument) has one of the richest and most mournful sounds in Indian music, but it’s...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Uam – From Me
The third studio album from Outer Hebridean Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis is as deeply immersed in the traditions of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Splendour in the Grass
The 12-piece, which its founder Thomas Lauder¬dale suggests would make a great United Nations' house band, has concocted its fourth...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Best of Bonga
Listening to this outstanding compilation makes me wonder why ageing singer Bonga isn't more celebrated in English–speaking world music circles....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Definitive Collection
Sometime in the late 1980s I made a radio feature saluting the emergence of ‘New Wave English Country Dance Music.’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Linzay Young & Joel Savoy
When Joel Savoy was a teenager, he learned from some of the veteran musicians living in and around his hometown...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Don’t You Want To Go?
A superbly talented fiddle player from Kansas City, Missouri, and member of the acoustic bluegrass band The Wilders, Betse Ellis...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound
Clubbers and Cubanophiles alike will leap on this double set from the zeitgeist-riding Gilles Peterson. Financed by Havana Rum and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Feast Frost Bites
Pauls Hutchinson and Sartin return with a festive offering of carols and tunes to see us through yuletide. The result...
Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Light a Candle
Forró is an eternally sunny, jiggy dance from north¬eastern Brazil that became very popular in the 1990s with the São...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
