Reviews
Aratan n Azawad
No surprise that Terakaft – the name means ‘caravan’ in Tamasheq – stayed pretty close to the sound of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
Bad Old Songs
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird
American-born, Berlin-based Daniel Kahn is one of the most interesting arrivals on the klezmer scene in the last few years....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
Şatellites
Şatellites are a brilliant Tel Aviv Turkish-psych cover band – but they’re also much more than that. Some of their...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2022
Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Sole Kitchen
Along the highways and byways in and around Portland, Oregon, there are so many microbreweries dispensing fine beers and even...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2010
The Liberty to Choose
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Uña y Carne
It's been 12 years since Juan Gómez ‘Chicuelo’ released his last solo album, Diapasión. In the interim he's worked as...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal
This is the debut recording of one of Finland's most dynamic new groups. The four young women who comprise Tuuletar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017
Shuffle
The stompers of King Porter hail from the southern shores of the UK – they’re a seven-piece Brighton-based collective that...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Tarkat Tajje – Let’s Go
Our education in the music of the nomadic peoples of the Sahara has advanced rapidly in the years since Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
