Reviews
Rough Guide to the Music of New Orleans
New Orleans may still rightfully lay claim to the mantle ‘the birthplace of jazz’, but the only track that comes...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2012
The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia
This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2016
Young Iranian Female Voices: Songs in the Mist
This is a result of ten young Iranian female singers having gone to record in Norway. Women singers performing in...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2017
Sixty/Black to the Future/Notes of Life
With Masekela's live dates cancelled while he recovers from prostate cancer, this budget-price reissue of a trio of classic albums...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Calypso: Musical Poetry in the Caribbean 1955-69
This joyous compilation aims to demonstrate calypso's pre-ska popularity across the Caribbean region and beyond. The first calypso recordings were...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui
The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015
Sufi Trance of the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus
Ensemble Al-Kindi & Sheikh Hamed Daoud
This album from the formidable Ensemble Al-Kindi is their first release since the untimely death of their founder Julien Jâlal...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2023
Forgotten Tunes
Jarek Adamów | Jarek Adamów & Nadbużanie
Jarek Adamów has been championing traditional Polish folk music for some 25 years. His albums have received mixed reviews in...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2025
Heemor (Windhorse Reprise)
Wind Horse, the debut release by Inner Mongolian band Anda Union in 2011, was a Top of the World in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
Distant Kin
Funded by the Scottish Arts council, this eight-track gem captures a collaboration between six Celtic and three Indian musicians from...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: May/2016
