Reviews
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
L'infinit
Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2021
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2016
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton
This wonderful recording of Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton performing in New York in 1962 begins with a short, sweet...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Apocalypse Across the Sky
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
The story of Jajouka in the West begins with William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, who were their conduit to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Tiger Run
Nyolo's eighth album in a solo career that began in 1996 with Tribu may just be her most cohesive and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Money Isn’t Everything
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
They may be based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra have fallen for old-time Americana hook,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2013
Resilience: Songs of Uganda
A former member of Uganda's longest lasting and most celebrated group the Afrigo Band, Rachel Magoola has released her seventh...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2021
This Pale
Shujaat Husain Khan, Katayoun Goudarzi, Shaho Andalibi, Shariq Mustafa
Sufi music exists in various forms in different parts of the Islamic world with differing music and poetry in various...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2021
