Reviews
Everything Sacred
Fifty years ago the Incredible String Band emerged from the Scottish folk scene to create an extraordinary fusion of folk,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
Actitud Calle
With a Banksy-style graphic on the cover, a photo from the commemorative marchofthe 40th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Sketches
Natalie MacMaster is Canadian fiddle royalty, with a bulging cabinet of awards and an address book of artists (from Béla...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Turn up the Quiet
Is it possible ever to tire of the Beatles back-catalogue? Unless you are a Brazilian (in whose country they are...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2013
The Sound of the Soul
Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world's great musical innovators. He's a composer and virtuoso guitarist, who transformed the Indian...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2023
Teranga! Senegal
That Senegal has an acoustic singer-songwriter scene (as opposed to a traditional music scene) has been apparent for at least...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Apr/May/2013
The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
Steve Martin’s talent as a clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjoist fares on this album much as his talent as a comic...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Lost Songs of World War II
It is truly extraordinary how so many treasures of Jewish music got lost or were concealed behind the Iron Curtain...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Univers-Île
One of the electronic music wizards of the southern hemisphere, Jeremy Labelle, has released Univers-Île, his second album, which is...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: November/2017
Nos Quintais do Mundo
Perhaps DJ Tudo should change his name, or at least that deceptive prefix of his, for it hides the fact...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2012
