Reviews
Live in Nashville
This is a live recording of a 2013 concert on Lakha Khan's debut American tour, given in a Presbyterian church...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2015
Room With a View
After six years, Old Blind Dogs are back. Founded by fiddler Jonny Hardie in 1990 while busking in the Highlands,...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
See You Around
After years of teasing us – an impromptu debut at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2014, a world tour and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2018
Cycle
The themes of recurrence and circularity stand out in Hazel Askew, Rowan Rheingans and Hannah James’ third album as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
In the Name of the Rose
Dastan Ensemble with Hamid Motebassem & Salar Aghili
As one of the most innovative and prolific contemporary Iranian classical music ensembles to emerge since the early 90s, Dastan...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Marcos Valle JID003
Marcos Valle, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad
More than half a century after recording the seminal Samba ’68 album for Verve, Marcos Valle’s love affair with black...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2020
Areas of High Traffic
Yorkshire-based Ulsterman Damien O’Kane is a familiar name from his key role alongside his wife, Kate Rusby, in her band,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Gach Sgeul – Every Story
The four and a half years since Julie Fowlis’ last studio album, Uam, have been transformative for her. Now a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2014
Quaranta
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Quaranta, CGS's new release, celebrates four decades of the group's existence. It is awe-inspiring, stirring and soulful; with an array...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2015
