Reviews
Dancing on Roses, Dancing on Cinders
The raw brass band music that accompanies all important celebrations in the Balkans has been given a serious spit and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Guitar Tango: Más Allá
Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano
Mentored by the late bandoneón player and songwriter Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer Martín Alvarado has been plying his plaintive, precisely...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
The Art of the Shakuhachi
Katsuya Yokoyama, one of the last great masters of Japanese traditional music, brings us an exemplary recording of 17th-century shakuhachi...
Reviewed by Darran Smith in issue: July/2017
En Son de Paz
Though they come from Buenos Aires’ experimental electronic cumbia scene, it’s hard to get away from the fact that Frikstailers...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2013
Moon Night
For prolific Chinese erhu virtuoso Guo Gan, the last few years have seen a number of new explorations, including collaborations...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2019
Silence
Coşkun Karademir, Tord Gustavsen, Derya Türkan & Ömer Arslan
A master of the traditional Turkish long-neck lutes, Coşkun Karademir has released several remarkably adventurous recordings. With The Secret Ensemble...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2021
$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You
In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record...
Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: December/2022
Ryan Young
This hotly tipped, er, young Scottish fiddler has won, and been nominated for a plethora of folk and fiddling awards....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2017
Mechanical Monster
With lots of funk and zing to move all butts to the floor, the Monster Ceilidh Band remind us that...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
