Reviews
Longyin: The Dragon Chants
Cheng Yu with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee
In classical music, the recreation of earlier musical styles has become a genre in itself with what’s now called HIP...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Cross the Rolling Water
Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
The Gamelan of Bangle
Terompong beruk is the form of gamelan ensemble indigenous to the Balinese village of Bangle, just one of dozens of...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Jumbie in the Jukebox
‘I would choose to live back when calypso brought the news’, sings Drew Gonsalves in the opening seconds of Jumbie...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2013
To the Horizon, Sir
Iain Morrison hails from a village in the wilds of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. He made...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2013
The Songs Which Are
This Toronto-based ensemble continue their exploration of musicalising the work of the late self-taught Nova Scotia poet Alden Nowlan, around...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2023
All About the Bones
American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol 1
Take a cursory glance at Complete Recorded Works and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the latest release from...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Exaltação
If you're the sort of person who likes to know what they're getting into ahead of time then this is...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: March/2019
