Reviews
Into the Bloodstream
Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach has had a tough life. A member of Australia’s ‘stolen generation, forcibly removed from his family...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Archangel Hill
Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023
A Window to Color
Mamak Khadem has been woefully neglected by UK world music promoters and producers. She started her performing career as lead...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2012
So Slowly Slowly Got She Up
Drones, samples, feedback, accordion and the wavering tension of her voice on a set of great traditional material make Elle...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Way of the Drum
Mugenkyo Taiko (Limitless Reverberation) are one of the longest running taiko groups in the UK, whose interdisciplinary approach has led...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2019
Pingue-Pongue
Paulo Bellinati & Cristina Azuma
Though little of it reaches our shores, there's a great deal more to Brazilian music than bossa nova and 1970s-style...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Celilo Falls
Born in a small town in Oregon, a child of the Pacific Northwest whose Pentecostal family traces its lineage back...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Maqaam d’Amour
Aïcha Redouane, originally of Moroccan descent, has become a house¬hold name in the performance of music from the eastern part...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Keepsakes
With cover art picturing keepsakes sent in by fans – an old travelcard, an old tooth, an old mixtape –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
All of You
On this album Iranian pianist Hooshyar Khayam and ney player Amir Eslami join forces in a recording of largely improvised...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2011
