Reviews
Sufiyan
This is quite an extraordinary project for fans of the Turkish ney – the reed flute that is at the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2012
Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
Every Song Has its End: Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali
Over the last few years the Bamako-based producer Paul Chandler has travelled across Mali making field recordings of traditional musicians...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Flourish
Katie McNally is a terrific young fiddle player from Boston, who, devoted to the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions, is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Tailwind Home
Equus are an Australian group formed around the vocals and horse-head fiddle (morin huur) playing of Mongolian musician Bukhu Ganburged....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2019
Trigger
From the first few bars of the opening track on the debut album by the Israeli keyboardist Sharon Masur, you...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
Parachute
It's hard to pinpoint what exactly makes Trio Dhoore's music their own: what makes their art distinctive, or even identifiably...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2015
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The Band of Gică Diricel from Dobroteşti, Teleorman
This band come from Teleorman County in the south of Romania, about 90km west of Clejani, home of Taraf de...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
Secret Victory
There was an impressive self-titled EP last year from this Canadian power-folk trio but their live-sounding, full-length album debut is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015
Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast
Afro-Colombian music has long been overlooked – largely down to an institutional and classist bias that, it has to be...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
