Reviews
Puja
This is is the follow-up to Sanders' 2018 release, Java. As with that album, this, his third solo effort, features...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: May/2020
Sanata: Stillness
Born in India, raised in Canada and now resident in New York City, Kiran Ahluwalia has forged an intriguing and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
Listen
American-born of Indian heritage, Nitish Kulkarni took a Masters degree in music production at the Berklee Campus in Valencia, Spain....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2018
The Rough Guide to Americana
Compiled by rock writer and musician Sylvie Simmons, this second edition of TheRough Guide to Americana is a pleasing hodgepodge...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2016
Luys i Luso
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
The supreme art form in Armenian culture is, I would argue, its ecclesiastical architecture. Those rugged churches with conical domes...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2015
Alambari
At first glance there is something suspiciously ‘arty’ about DakhaBrakha. Attired in exaggerated folk costumes and oversize black lamb-fur head-gear...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2020
A Gathering of Strangers 2021
Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends
A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Wary + Strange
As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
Sea of Stories
For fans of Jaune Toujours, this may come as something of a shock. Their singer and accordion player Piet Maris...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2023
Kind of Folk, Vol 4 Iberia
Norwegian drummer Terje Isungset is best-known for wowing the world with his ice music, but he's also part of the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023
