Reviews
Breathing Raga
Breathing Raga is heaven, a full dhrupad performance of raag Bhairav, from alap to bandish (composition). The singer here is...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: September/2024
Acoustic Accordions
Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek and Marcin Galazyn. Since their debut CD, Pictures from...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2010
Spiders Tango
Kuljit Bhamra & Davide Giovannini (featuring The Villiers Quartet)
Kuljit Bhamra's quicksilver innovative, virtuosic talent is well known, well respected and very much enjoyed by tabla afficionados, percussionists and...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2020
Jaya
Chandra Lacombe has been playing and recording since the early 80s, the Brazilian musician gaining renown for his intertwining of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: November/2022
Vintage & Unique
Mandolinist John Reischman's relative obscurity outside of the insular bluegrass universe is by no means reflective of his standing in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Helsinki
This is a musical marriage made in heaven between an accordionist (Lepistö) of exceptional elegance and beauty and a bass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
This is a good period for ethereal and weird folk and traditional music, with acts like Milkweed seeing their idiosyncratic...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: February/March/2025
Vida
Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
