Reviews
Between the Sky & Prairie
The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho
Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018
Iaith Enaid: The Language of the Soul
Traditional Welsh harp music isn’t for everyone. But, since 1983, Robin Huw Bowen, the only full-time professional Welsh harpist specialising...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015
Calypso Travels
Lord Invader & His Calypso Group
One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
The Young Man's Harp
Born in Mali in 1974, Noumoussa Soumaoro – aka Vieux Kanteé – began playing the six-string hunter's harp known as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Beyond the Ragasphere
Whoever still thinks of 'fusion' in the context of Indian music as a term of abuse will have to change...
Reviewed by Rolf Killus in issue: June/2013
Edery Sings Yupanqui
Gerard Edery was born in Casablanca but raised in New York and Paris. Of Sephardic Jewish heritage (note the name...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Inspiration
Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins
You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Of What We Spoke
Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2016
Studio One Rocksteady 2
Soul Jazz’s second excursion into the vaults of Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One productions searches for the blissful sounds of the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2017
Love & Devotion
Qawwali is the devotional music of South Asian Sufis (Islamic mystics) and its most famous exponent, the late Nusrat Fateh...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
