Reviews
Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two
The khaen is a bamboo free-reed mouth organ played by ethnic Laotians in Laos and Northeast Thailand. Performed solo, or...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: June/2023
Thank You for Bringing Me Back to the Sky
The Oldest Voice in the World (Azerbaijan)
The music we call global should thank the heavens, really, for the Grammy-winning producer and field recordist Ian Brennan, who...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2023
Falling Out of Time
Since the Silkroad Ensemble was established by Yo-Yo Ma 20 years ago, its ever- shifting ensemble have created a global...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021
Lawless, Winged & Unconfined
Clarinettist Merlin Shepherd, a central figure of the British klezmer crowd, presents us here with a new band, Hamsa, and...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace and Conscious Sounds at Studio One
Studio One was known as the Jamaican Motown because countless artists emerged from its training ground, including Bob Marley and...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Wesele!
Tęgie Chłopy are one of Poland's best new traditional groups, reviving the repertoire of the Kielce region in central Poland....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018
Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs
The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2022
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
In 2014 Tony Allen visited Haiti to perform with local musicians at a concert in Port-Au-Prince's main square. He was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Constant Companion
Cunning folk were – are – people of wisdom, practitioners of folk medicine and magic. Here, though, Cunning Folk is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2019
Arise
Jamaican vocal trio The Abyssinians became legends with their seminal 1976 album Satta Massagana, which made an Afrocentric statement via...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2016
