Reviews
Handmade
Supplying the music for a big-budget TV ad campaign might provoke eat-ealls from the anti-corporate quarter, but the cash does...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2010
Rakhshani Love Songs & Trance Music from Balochistan
This is music from a sadly neglected part of the world. Hopefully this great double CD will bring attention to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Conscription
The deranged frontman known only as Mike H led his motley Danish crew The Sexican across their debut album The...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2013
Out of Sight
The Polish trio Kroke formed back in 1992 and started playing Jewish klezmer in their home city of Krakow –...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Karantamba
Tiny Gambia has always struggled to maintain a musical identity beside its mighty neighbour, Senegal. For long periods its music...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: June/2012
Lovers Rock: The Soulful Sound of Romantic Reggae
An episode of Steve McQueen’s acclaimed BBC television series Small Axe stimulated renewed interest in lover’s rock, the Black British...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: July/2022
Paper Airplane
Paper Airplane is the first release by Alison Krauss & Union Station since 2004's Lonely Runs Both Ways. All of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011
A Tribute to the King of Zydeco
This autumn, Smithsonian Folkways will release a 4-CD box set, Clifton Chenier: King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco. Comprising 67...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025
Sufis at the Cinema: 50 years of Bollywood Qawwali & Sufi Song 1958-2007
Twenty-five tracks and over 150 minutes of film music at its best, this compilation from Saregama has got to be...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2011
Iran: Music of the Persian Gulf
Many of Iran’s regional folk music traditions are still relatively unknown to world music audiences in Europe and North America....
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2010
