Reviews
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
Folk Music of China Vol 3: Folk Songs of Yunnan
The title of this album would be more accurate with a subtitle of The Wa, Blang, and De'ang, as these...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: April/2020
Jiw
It took eight years of personal introspection and musical exploration for the Dakar-based Sahad Sarr to bring out his debut...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2017
Tractor Beam
The debut album featuring fiddler Rosie Newton and banjoist Richie Stearns was originally issued in the US in 2013, but...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2016
Across the Divide
Constant international touring for the last decade, including a stint opening for The Jools Holland Orchestra, as well as playing...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2016
Ile de la Réunion: Maloya
Maloya is a style of music unique to La Réunion in the Indian Ocean. It is the secular version of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2017
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny
Mick Houghton and Andrew Blatt deserve much credit for conceiving and compiling this set – and for unearthing previously unheard...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Live in Vienna
The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2014
Tango de Ruptura
Buenos Aires is full of talented youn g musicians and in recent years, on the back of a rising wave...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
The Outlander
On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019
