Reviews
El Hajar
One of Israel's leading rock stars, Dudu Tassa is the grandson of the celebrated musician Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, whose collaborations with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2019
Aur
Amazingly, this is only the fourth studio album from the long-established Cardiff-based traditional music group, Carreg Lafar. These champions of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017
The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection
The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
The Good is a Big God
Over the years, I have returned to Rio drummer Domenico Lancellotti's collaborations with Moreno Veloso and Alexandre Kassin - the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
25 Trips
Sierra Hull's voice is as sparkling clear as a glacial stream tinged with just the right shad of Tennessee twang....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020
Manbarani
Natik Awayez won't be known to many readers. Born in Iraq, he has lived in Bulgaria (studying philosophy), Yemen, Sweden...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2021
The Butcher's Share
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
If The Klezmatics were the pre-eminent klezmer band of the 1990s, I suspect Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird might...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
God is a Drummer
‘Without the drummer, nothing will move. And without movement, the world will stop,’ says Trilok Gurtu, explaining the title of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Hetkessä
Finland is a country of many outstanding accordionists and Teija Niku is one of the newer figures on the scene....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
