Reviews
Oliver's Cinema
Eric Vloeimans’ Oliver's Cinema
‘For the elderly’ and ‘music to be given a wide berth’ – this is what the young Eric Vloeimans used...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: July/2014
Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt
Rannok's Michael Graubæk (fiddle and mandolin) and Theis Langlands (piano and pump organ) are both well-established musicians in the Danish...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017
The Rough Guide to the Best Japanese Music You’ve Never Heard
Despite the slightly misleading title – many of the artists here are well known in world music circles outside Japan...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: October/2021
Banjophonics
With tune titles including ‘Daisy’s Dance’ and ‘Happy Little Phoebe’ (Daisy and Phoebe being the names of Damien O’Kane’s two...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: August/September/2022
Esteesee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Over That Road I’m Bound
In the two decades and more since the 18-year-old Joachim Cooder played percussion alongside Ry Cooder on Buena Vista Social...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
The King of Ramps (The Music of Melvin Wine)
Old-time fiddler and banjo player Ben Townsend pays homage to a revered master of West Virginia fiddling, Melvin Wine, on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
Gaye Su Akyol delivered a superb set at this year's WOMAD that focused strongly on the new songs that populate...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2018
