Reviews
New Sound of the Middle East
The album title certainly makes a brave claim, but in many ways the music lives up to it, for Hagai...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2023
The Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz
It's fair to say Brazilian music has been in intimate dialogue with jazz almost from the genre's 19th-century inception –...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Raysn: The Music of Jewish Belarus
This New York-based band are exploring the Jewish music of Belarus and its surrounds. The Jewish culture of the region...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016
The Rough Guide to Country Blues
Give this album the roughly five minutes it takes to run down the first two tracks – the deeply harrowing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
For the Sake of Auld Decency
Album number two from Irish-Danish four-piece Mórga, sees David Munnelly replace Barry Brady on accordion. But in all other respects...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India
This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Apr/May/2015
Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean
The volcanic archipelago of the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar includes La Réunion, Mauritius and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2021
To an Isle in the Water
Brisk's music sounds thoroughly and authentically Irish, so it comes as a big surprise to discover the quartet are actually...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2019
A Tarot of the Green Wood
The seven songs on this third studio album from Burd Ellen, the Glasgow-based project featuring Debbie Armour and Gayle Brogan,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
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
