Reviews
Night Songs from a Neighbouring Village
Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty
Michael Alpert and Julian Kytasty are two superb American musicians. The former is a singer and violinist and leading light...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Tibetan Buddhist Religious Music from the Kagyu School
Phursung Kelak's life was characterised by disruption and change. Aged 13, he joined a monastery in his native Tibet. Eight...
Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: June/2020
DOST 1
Derya Yıldırım doesn’t like to be pigeonholed. “I do what comes out of me. And if that is for some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Egeland Edén Marin Vol 1
Ånon Egeland, Mats Edén & Mikael Marin
It's hard to believe that three of Scandinavia's most outstanding folk musicians are together here as a trio for the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
First Steps
Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
Tabla Jugalbandi for Ustad Shamsuddin Khan’s Punyatithi, 1968
This is a very rare private recording from 1968, featuring two percussion maestros of yesteryear, the twins Shashi (who died...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012
Áššu
Áššu (Ulla Pirttijärvi, Harald Skullerud & Olav Torget)
If joik was a person, it'd be the type who could turn up at any house party and somehow find...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2019
Too Long in This Condition
Supposedly Alasdair Roberts is a human male born in the 1970s, raised in central Scotland and a resident of Glasgow...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010
Live at WOMAD 1985
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party
Marking its 30th anniversary, Real World Records has released this album as a tribute to the late qawwali king, Nusrat...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2019
Yeraz
Jivan Gasparyan Duduk Ensemble
There are few instruments as beautiful as the Armenian duduk. Its plaintive, reedy tone seems to exude melancholy. Djivan (or...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
