Reviews
Music of the Santal Tribe: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya
This album not only has some wonderful music but is also a valuable ethnographic and historical record of the culture...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2014
Live at the Tabernacle
It's been ten years since the exquisite debut album by the British-born Palestinian singer and we really shouldn’t have had...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
An Introduction to Martin Carthy
One of the jewels in Topic's vast catalogue has to be the work of Martin Carthy, one of the colossi...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2018
Little Universe
Only one year after their acclaimed 2020 release Songs Beyond Words, Taiwan-based group A Moving Sound return with another eclectic...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2021
Truth be Told
Shama Rahman's jazz flirts with trip-hop and acoustic music to such an extent that her French verses in the title-track...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: December/2016
Tuning into the World: Slovenia
Slovenia is a small nation, with a powerful cultural centre in the capital of Ljubljana, and hence a place where...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2018
Manuša
Júlia Kozáková is a young Slovakian singer who is, at present, studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2022
Enclosure
The Askews have released some of the most striking folk music of recent years, from Hazel's involvement in Lady Maisery...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019
Chambacú
Colombian singer Aurita Castillo was just six or seven years old when she recorded two albums for Discos Fuentes in...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022
Handful of Earth
When this album was released in November 1981, the year had already seen riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019
