Reviews
Dance of the Cobra
To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Traversées
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019
La Grande Dame de la Chanson Creole
The French chanson tradition has shone a spotlight on many great singers through the years, singers as varied as the...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Jigdoll
The album begins with a soft low hum, then lyrical vocal layers build up, like cumulus clouds across a twilight...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
Sufi Spirit
You may be forgiven for approaching this with trepidation: a Danish rock‘n’roll band playing along with qawwali (the sacred music...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/2017
Barrio Tango
Over the past few years Madrid-based label Galileo has been licensing a number of talented and distinctive Argentinian tango bands...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2010
Swimmings of the Head
Scottish fiddler, composer and singer Kate Young plays in two English folk ensembles: vocal and fiddle quartet Carthy, Hardy, Farrell...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2015
A Dotted Line
A quarter-century after capturing the imagination of the bluegrass community as pre-teen prodigies, Chris Thile (mandolin/vocals), Sara Watkins (fiddle/vocals) and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014
La Cantiga del Fuego
Madrid-born Ana Alcaide went to Sweden to study as a biologist and came back to Spain to become a professional...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2013
