Reviews
Ethiopiques Vol 26
Mahmoud Ahmed & The Imperial Bodyguard Band
This latest release in the long running Éthiopiques series is very much a game of two halves. The opening five...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs
In these pages last year (#120) I reviewed Greg Vandy's book 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Festival Bell
Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
What News
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Strange News
Thirty-five years ago, an English dance tune named ‘Blowzabella’ was found in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of Cecil Sharp...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2014
Visit Malphino
The continuing globalisation of cumbia has seen it travel from Colombia's Caribbean coast to urban dance halls, stadium rock shows,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2018
Brasses for the Masses
The future of Balkan brass seems secure in the fast fingers of Macedonian trumpeter Džambo Aguševi and his orchestra who...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: May/2020
Viajando Com O Som
Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa
Widely regarded as Brazil's most preternaturally gifted musician, Hermeto Pascoal has covered an incredible amount of creative ground in his...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2017
For
Describing herself as ‘a harper, composer and sound artist,’ Úna Monaghan holds a degree in astrophysics from Cambridge University and...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2018
