Reviews
Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road
This handsome set matches a four-disc, unexpurgated record of Bengali ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya's 1955 epic field recording road trip, illustrated...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Thursday Night in the Caley
Hailing from the Highlands and islands, Blazin’ Fiddles have been stoking the flames since 1998, when they first got together...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2011
First Dance on Second Avenue
She'Koyokh, the London band who take their name from a Yiddish greeting, are a brilliant live ensemble who effortlessly blend...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2017
My Dusty Road
In these digital days of iTunes and Spotify, in which the disc and the very notion of music as a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Ancestors Call
These extremely well recorded new versions of songs familiar to Tuvan throat singing fans (mainly from 1994's The Orphan's Lament...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
From the Kasbah/Tunis to Tahrir Square/Cairo & Back
It was, so they say, a very musical revolution. How could it have been anything else? Even under the most...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia
Like field research in an anthropological journal, the album Traditional Songs and Dances From Colombia often comes across like a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Circle Songs
When we think of Pygmy music it is primarily the vocal gymnastics that spring to mind; usually with an organic...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Dobrila & Dorian Duo Two
Dobrila Grašeska sings traditional Macedonian songs and Dorian Jovanović provides accompaniments on oud, looping and electronics. It's a pleasant, though...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023
