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
Les Esprits Écoutent: The Spirits are Listening
There are stunning sounds on this compilation of music by Siberian indigenous peoples, drawn from Buda's Siberia CD series, which...
Reviewed by Carole Pegg in issue: July/2014
The Irish Sea Sessions 2010
The inaugural Irish Sea Sessions, of which this is an electrifying live recording from last year’s Liverpool Irish Festival, brought...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Over Tones
Benedicte Maurseth & Åsne Valland Nordli
These outstanding musicians have impeccable pedigrees. They grew up with the folk traditions of Norway's Hardanger region. Maurseth learned Hardanger...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Sonando Ya
The Sierra Maestra, the mountainous region where the leading lights of the 1959 Cuban revolution hid out, is intimately associated...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010
Foolin' in Time
Cecilia Zabala, Don Davis & Joe Deleault
Languid and loose, filled with clever arrangements and multilingual lyrics placed just so, this long-gestating passion project comes from a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/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
Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky
Originally performing as a quartet, the Rwandan group The Good Ones have reduced to a duo for their fourth album....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2022
Wonder Wheel
The Klezmatics – accomplished Ameri¬can practitioners of progressive klezmer music for the past 20 years – won a Grammy for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
