Reviews
Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel, The Unfaithful Servants’ second full-length release, serves up a splendid sampling of the Vancouver Island-based quartet’s distinctive take...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2026
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
Mike Marshall & The Turtle Island Quartet
With this latest entry in his Adventure Music catalogue, mandolin maestro Mike Marshall and the renowned Turtle Island Quartet have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014
The Rough Guide to African Blues
What goes around comes around. African music was transported across the Atlantic in slave ships and came to soundtrack the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014
Bamboo
This is a welcome full reissue of the experimental album from 1970, which is highly prized by collectors. Shakuhachi (Japanese...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2019
Music from Iraq
There's something reassuring about putting on a CD called Music from Iraq and it sounding just like that – music...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2015
Our Lady of the Tall Trees
From the first track to the last, the sonorous twang and thrum of Cahalen Morrison & Eli West’s music is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
From Night to the Edge of Day
The birth of her first child inspired the Iranian-born Canadian resident Azam Ali to record an album of lullabies as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Kankobela of the Batonga Vol 1
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
Turkey: The Ceremony of the Konya Dervishes
Konya Whirling Dervishes Ensemble
The ritual of the so-called whirling dervishes is the best-known Sufi ceremony in Turkey. During the sema, the dervishes, dressed...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Way Home
Having followed an early grounding in his native Highland traditions with a full classical training, Donald Grant is both a...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
