Reviews
Hour of Solitude
Blue Mantra Rhymes is the brainchild of Ed Cooke, an English ex-pat living and working in Thailand. A number of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: April/2022
Anewal: OSAS – It's Time
Founder member of Niger's desert blues champions Etran Finatawa, Alhousseini Anivolla has given us a second solo set that is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2017
The Series of Music for Young Adults: Iranian Folk Songs
Originally released in 1976 by Iran's Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults as part of a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2023
Wood & Steel
This is a simple, but fascinating meeting of French jazz flautist Joce Mienniel playing a Western Boehm-system classical flute and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2022
Hitsville Re-Visited
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu
The cavalcade of 1970s and 80s African album reissues shows no signs of slowing. This one, originally released in 1982,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2019
Cecil Sharp Project
Earlier this year, a remarkable ‘Who's Who’ of the new British folk scene assembled in London's Cecil Sharp House. Lined...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Iran: Music of the Persian Gulf
Many of Iran’s regional folk music traditions are still relatively unknown to world music audiences in Europe and North America....
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2010
Bantu Spaceship
Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe has witnessed something of a musical freeing up since the death of the revolutionary turned tyrant in 2019....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2023
