Reviews
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
Tamburising: Lost Music of the Balkans
The tamburica, which comes in various shapes and sizes that may resemble a guitar, a long-necked mandolin, or a bass...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Songs from the Pearl of Khorasan
The story of Afghan rubab master Nasim Khushnawaz is as fascinating as it is fraught with unimaginable adversity. Born in...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2022
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Orontes began as a Syrian-Spanish project in the city of Homs, but ceased to function when the catastrophic civil war...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
The Rough Guide to Blues Divas
The stereotypical image of the early blues pioneers as black itinerant males playing bottleneck guitar on the plantations of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Luilliamson in issue: April/2020
Iration Steppas: Dubs from the Foundation
Founded in the early 1990s in Leeds, Iration Steppas is the creative brainchild of Mark Iration and one of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: August/2025
Cats, Dogs and Ghosts
Kottarashky is Nikola Gruev, a young Bulgarian composer and producer whose 2009 debut album Opa Hey! demonstrated a fluid,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
