Reviews
Mountain Meeting
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Some records are special from the very first moment. Mountain Meeting opens with a single fiddle tune, a burbling figure...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2018
Long Gone Out West Blues
Long Gone Out West Blues is a worthy sequel to Pharis and Jason Romero’s first effort, A Passing Glimpse. It...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2013
Esteesee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Mugham Souls
Gochag Askarov & Pierre de Trégomain
Gochag Askarov is a top singer of mugham, the sophisticated vocal tradition of Azerbaijan. Although recorded in concert in Baku's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2017
The King of Ramps (The Music of Melvin Wine)
Old-time fiddler and banjo player Ben Townsend pays homage to a revered master of West Virginia fiddling, Melvin Wine, on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
Siftorde
Tidiane Thiam is a photographer, visual artist and guitarist from Podor, the dusty home town of Baaba Maal in northern...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Kula Kulluk Yakisir M1
Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan
Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish saz player Erdal Erzincan are both fantastic traditional musicians with a taste for...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Grippy Grappa
The trio Monsieur Doumani formed a couple of years ago in Cyprus with Angelos lonas on guitar and vocals, Demetris...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2013
