Reviews
Chameleons of the White Shadow
He might be still in his 20s, but Joseph Tawadros matches precociousness with prolificacy. Chameleons of the White Shadow is...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2013
The Sacred Lute
Nour Ali Elahi (1895-1975) deserves to be much better known than he is. The fact that he has just been...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
The King of Ramps (The Music of Melvin Wine)
Old-time fiddler and banjo player Ben Townsend pays homage to a revered master of West Virginia fiddling, Melvin Wine, on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
Bomba Pop
Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024
Black Horses
The Midnight Fairground is the magical conceptual world of singer, Mae Karthauser. Hailing from the sleepy banks of the Dart...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Foreign Lander
Mike Ellison was a delightful new discovery for me, an old-time Appalachian musician I hadn’t heard of with real ties...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2026
The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
Premiered at Celtic Connections 2020, this evocative project grew out of the fascination of Orkney-born musician and composer Graham Rorie...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Orchestrations
Buttery has pursued a more eclectic approach to incorporating global styles into his guitar playing than his fellow South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
We Have Waited Too Long
At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Adibar
It’s odd now to recall that initial responses in the West to Ali Farka Toure’s Songhai guitar music – 25...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014
