Reviews
Alchemy
Having first discovered medieval and Renaissance melodies at the age of four through her recorder playing, then taken up the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2017
The Happy Prince
As tribute bands go, the Brothers Nazaroff are one of the more eccentric out there. Named after the elusive Nathan...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2016
Ođđa áigodat
Solju is the name of a new project from the Finnish Sámi joiker Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter, Hilda Länsman....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Breathe
Laura-Beth Salter, one-sixth of the all– women group The Shee, first performed the songs and music that make up this,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
Made in Malawi
There has sadly been very little international exposure for the music and musicians of Malawi. There is no immediately identifiable...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2015
Kel Tinariwen
You know Tinariwen. Hypnotic Touareg assouf music from bluesy electric guitars, slithering out of Saharan sand-encrusted amps and accompanied by...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2023
Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 1920s-1950s
Compiled by historian Alan Dein, Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World is both a historic document, chronicling...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2019
Tundra Songs
The first noises here sound just like a fat seal pulling itself over gritty snow. By the end of Tundra...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2015
Daba
The simple, unaffected, sound of the traditional ngoni (lute) is one of West Africa's most distinctive and evocative musical delights....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2017
