Reviews
Origine Orients
Abaji says of the hybrid oud–guitar he built and played on his new album Origine Orients that it is his...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2010
11 Dimensions
This is CH Straatmann's second solo album. He's an undeniably talented bass player, who hails from Brazil, with an impressive...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2020
Two Score
Now entering their fifth decade, albeit with a lengthy 1990s hiatus included, and having undergone numerous line-up changes, the current...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Rangeele
Rangeele is Kailash Kher's fourth album with the band Kailasa, which he set up with brothers Paresh and Naresh Kamath...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: June/2012
Live at Perthshire Amber
Julie Fowlis is now a fine ambassador for the music, song and culture of her Outer Hebridean homeland and this...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
Rwanda, You Should be Loved
This recording – which was created on the farm of bandleader Adrien Kazigira and whittles 40 of his compositions down...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
True North
Ten years ago, Phillip Henry (best known as one half of the award-winning Devon folk duo, Edgelarks, with Hannah Martin)...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2019
Makhorka
Formed in 1998 in France by a trio of buskers from St Petersburg, Russia, Dobranotch originally played Irish music. Perhaps...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
The Iqrit Files
The Palestinian refugee camps of the Middle East are a hotbed of musical creativity, although there are few outlets for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Year of the Clown
The album's title is a whimsical comment on the political lunacy of the past year and there is certainly an...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2017
