Reviews
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
Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond
Forty-year-old Bear Family Records is a German label renowned for digging deeply into the country, blues and rock’n’roll archives, and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
All My Friends
A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024
Eclairer le Monde (Light the World)
It starts with a furious flurry of percussion, and then in comes that voice, as commanding, passionate and distinctive as...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2025
Island Records Presents Ska: 40 Original Ska Classics
Best known as a British rock label, Island Records actually began life in Jamaica in 1959. Its Harrow–educated founder, Chris...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: June/2013
Luci e Guai
Raised in Lyon with the tunes his Sicilian grandmother sang to him, Julien Lesuisse set out in search of his...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: June/2021
Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare’ Townships 1975-1980
Music scenes are strange things, ephemeral and unpredictable. The right confluence of history, politics, culture, migrations, community, geography, trends, hard...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2025
