Reviews
Miyan ki Todi – Bombay 1968
The honorific Dagar is synonym¬ous with dhrupad, one of the world’s oldest classical vocal genres. Zia Mohiuddin, who died in...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Matjale
The percussionist Thabang Tabane grew up playing in Molombo, a band from Mamelodi township on the outskirts of Pretoria, led...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
The Art of the Portuguese Fado Guitar
Custódio Castelo is one of today's finest players of the 12-stringed Portuguese guitar. He is perhaps best known as the...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2011
Issiktane
Sidi Abdallah’s name may be new but devotees of Touareg guitar music will be more than familiar with his father,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Creation
For years this was a real rarity. Recorded back in 1979 by the Jamaican singer Freddie McKay, Creation has been...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2024
I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
Co-produced by Joel Savoy and Joshua Clegg Caffery, and based on Caffery's scholarly tome, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2016
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Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Soprem Bons Ventos
Pedro Ricardo, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer, explains that his debut album represents “an ode to the past, to those...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2023
Songs Doc Didn't Sing
Arthel ‘Doc’ Watson, the legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter from Deep Gap, North Carolina, possessed a uniquely compelling vocal instrument. Smoky...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
