Reviews
Spirit of Love
COB is the abbreviation of Clive’s Original Band though Cob, as the trio was sometimes called, is apt. Cob is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Gran’s House
Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...
Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024
Talûş
Yıldırım is a young Turkish musician specialising in the kamancha (spiked fiddle), called kabak kemane in Anatolia where a dried...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2021
A Tribute to Lead Belly
The songs of Lead Belly were first popularised in Britain during the skiffle era of the mid-50s, when Lonnie Donegan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
Live Wire
Several years ago, the Woody Guthrie official archives were given two spools of wire recordings of a live performance in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Gamelan of Bangle
Terompong beruk is the form of gamelan ensemble indigenous to the Balinese village of Bangle, just one of dozens of...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Malta's Lost Voices
Now that's what I call a CD set. A foot-tall board-encased booklet, shaped like an old gramophone loudspeaker trumpet, is...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2011
Songs From Badissa
Cameroonian vocal¬ist and multi¬instrumentalist Erik Aliana and his band Korongo Jam are attracting their fair share of attention, and no...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Céu e Mar
Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
