Reviews
Synthesizing the Silk Roads
The title and subheading (Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock and Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia) say...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2024
Africa Mia
Pre-dating the great Africando by a quarter of a century, Las Maravillas de Mali were one of the early pioneers...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2019
Their First Album
The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010
L'Odyssey
This excellent debut album from Middle Eastern/Caribbean duo Vocal Global qualifies as true world music in every sense. Israeli Noga...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
Unknown Nearness
Misagh Joolaee is an Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player based in Berlin. His solo album Ferne (2019) was surely the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
Cold Blows the Wind
The assured trio of Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on melodeon, concertina and vocals, singer and guitarist George Sansome and violinist Lewis Wood...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025
Allt
Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre
This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Floating Letters
I’ve waxed lyrical about Tsuumi Sound System in the past, praising them for their brilliant approach to bringing together Finnish...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2013
Call of Bangalore
Before hearing this wonderfully recorded and produced album, I had only encountered the London-based violinist as a versatile performer of...
Reviewed by Rolf Killius in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
