Reviews
Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Vol 2
Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje
This is a very unusual album recreating songs remembered and described by Holocaust survivors. The testimonies are taken from the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2022
Never Slow Down
In the fall of 2019, when The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys made their Grand Ole Opry debut, their third album, Toil,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
Irish Rock’n’Roll
‘Well here I am from Paddy’s Land,’ sings Charles Hendy in the opening line of ‘The Bauld O’Donoghue’, the first...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: November/2023
The Don Ca Tai Tu: Chamber Music of the Mekong Delta
In 2013 the southern Vietnamese chamber music genre don ca tai tu was officially recognised as intangible cultural heritage by...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: October/2014
The Rough Guide to the Best World Music You’ve Never Heard
Much has been written about ‘world music’ as a genre – going back to David Byrne's 1999 New York Times...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2016
In the Furrows of Common Place
Drawing on the poetry of John Clare, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words and South Yorkshire writer Barry...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
This album chronicles the only existing complete concert performance by the inestimably important American folk musician during the period in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood
Bollywood rode high in the 60s and 70s. Playback singers were the stars of their day and musical directors had...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
The Falcon Flies from Rudnik Mountain
Olga Krasojevic & Svetlana Spajic Group
Olga Krasojević, rapidly approaching the age of 80 with few signs of wear, is from the central Serbian village of...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2016
New Songs From the Old Country
The tongue-in-cheek liner notes for this release, the fourth by this amalgamation of New York-based jazz and world musicians, sets...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2014
