Reviews
Guts, Lungs & Bones
Unfortunately this album doesn’t quite have the visceral clout promised by its excellent Waitsian title, although it’s hard to put...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
MLDVA & Çınar Timur
In recent years, there’s been a surfeit of European groups dedicated to recreating the sound of 1970s Anatolian pop and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2023
Kai Tu Užaha?
I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Fin Da Laand Ageen
The title is a Shetland expression meaning ‘to arrive back home’ and the 13 beautifully per¬formed tunes heard here are...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Bako
In case we don’t know quite what to call this, those kind folks over at Norway’s EM Label have come...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
Open the Road
Celtgrass pioneers We Banjo 3’s love affair with Americana has seen the Galway-based foursome build a formidable Stateside profile in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022
Mouasalat Ila Jacad el Ard
Largely unknown outside a small group of Arabic record collectors, Lebanese artist Issam Hajali's debut is finally getting the release...
Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: March/2020
Legend
The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu & Moscow Art Trio
With a Bulgarian female choir, Tuvan throat singers and hand-picked musicians from Moscow, you get some spectacular sounds and textures...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Turquoise
Mohammed Reza Ebrahimi is a virtuoso of the oud and Persian tar, and an instructor at the Music Conservatory of...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: January/2021
