Reviews
Dr Strangedub (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb)
This was supposedly written as a response to the ever-mushrooming sense of doom commonly experienced thanks to climate change, Trump,...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019
We Are Going to Bremen to be Musicians
Geoff Berner is an accordionist, singer and songwriter. This album quickly establishes that he's Jewish and Canadian – both subjects...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2016
Psalms of Loneliness
The tanbur is a sacred instrument for many Kurdish people. It has a powerful voice, as a statement of cultural...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2010
Silk & Stone
Amira Medunjanin is one of the great voices of the Balkans. A decade ago her album Rosa was a fantastic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2015
A Collection of Songs in the Traditional & Sean-Nós Style
Drawn from several generations of unaccompanied traditional singers, these are freshly recorded and collected, aside from Rosie Stewart’s ‘Jug of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian 80s Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks
Anyone who travelled in the Arabic world from the 1970s through to earlier this century will recall how cassettes were...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022
Take The High Road
There’s an obvious parallel between the Blind Boys of Alabama and South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Both are veteran vocal...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Beauty in the Dirt
Cory Seznec takes the formula he developed with folk trio Groanbox – Americana with global twists – and sets out...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2014
Riots in the Jungle
Skip & Die are an enigmatic creative duo who've made a debut album that could and should be reviewed by...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013
The Old Fabled River
For this project, Alasdair Roberts was invited by fiddler Hans Kjorstad to Oslo to reinterpret songs from Roberts’ back catalogue...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
