Reviews
Prince of the Violin
Sami al-Shawwa (1885-1965) introduced the Western violin to Cairo, devising new techniques for it and reinvigorating the art of modal...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Tongue & Groove
This is in fact two albums released together. Tongue and Groove are one disc of songs with vocals and a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2018
La Migra
Opening track ‘Aguanileo’ is a marvellous thing: seven minutes of swirling guitars and horns, electronic trills and crashing sound effects...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2017
Are Watching You
Joey Herzfeld and His So-Called Friends
This job can be hard sometimes. Here we have an album of immaculately arranged, professionally performed songs with well-crafted lyrics,...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2016
From Bamako to Carencro
BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet
BeauSoleil helped kick-start fresh interest in Cajun music back in the early 80s – this group of youngish Cajuns stripped...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2013
The Road to Peterloo
Two centuries ago, mounted and armed troopers viciously waded into thousands of men, women and children who were gathered peacefully...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2019
La Dôtu Lado
Right from the melancholic opening chords of a pair of acoustic guitars, you know you're in for a treat. Coladera...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2019
Songs from the River Wind
Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
Lucky Star
Royal Academy-trained, an acclaimed music educator for kids, a flugelhorn player and from England, Barbara Snow should not be as...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2019
Delhi to Damascus
This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2020
