Reviews
Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko
The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Anthology 2
How to collect the music of Fela Kuti has long challenged record buyers. His original vinyl albums tended to contain...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Diaspora in Buenos Aires
This is an intimate document of a Jewish family in Argentina remembering their roots in Eastern Europe. Pianist Andrés Linetzky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Stradivarius in Rio
Viktoria Mullova’s 2012 autobiography From Russia to Love describes how at the age of 24 she fled Soviet Russia in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2014
Lullabies
Who else but Jackie Oates could deliver such a fine set of lullabies as this? Over the course of her...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2013
Anthology of Indian Classical Music: A Tribute to Alain Daniélou
This three-LP set, recorded by Alain Daniélou, was first released in 1955. The recordings were groundbreaking in the 50s for...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Fado Jazz
Fado Jazz is Júlio Resende’s first album with ACT Music, one of Europe’s leading jazz labels and home to extraordinary...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2022
Loundo (Un Jour)
Moh! (sic) Kouyaté was given his first guitar by his grandmother in the Guinean capital Conakry, where he grew up,...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2016
Acoustic Rarities
If the recent Acoustic Classics II was an accessible introduction to Richard Thompson and his long career, then Acoustic Rarities...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2017
