Reviews
Heal & Harrow
At a time when there is a movement afoot to pardon the 4,000 or so women who found themselves at...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022
Chinook Waltz
When you click the ‘Music’ tab on Over the Moon’s website, the introductory note says, ‘With this album, we tried...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022
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
Live and Raw
Raw indeed. And a lot of that rawness is courtesy of Dennis Wint, Invisible System's frontman, best described as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Double Dekker
Desmond Dekker (1941-2006) brought Jamaican music to an international audience in a way that no other artist had previously achieved:...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019
Strings for Peace
Amjad Ali Khan, Sharon Isbin, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash
This is a pretty unusual jugalbandi, as they call it when two Indian soloists duet together. I don’t think there...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Kachupada
With Verdade, her 2010 release, Carmen Souza introduced herself to the world as a kind of Cape Verdean Diana Krall....
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
Rhythms of Tof Miriam
If, like me, you have a reptile-brain suspicion of recordings that bring together New Age sensibilities with world drums and...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2020
303
Combine the following ingredients – trumpet, guitar, mandolin, banjo, lute harp, lyre harp, dulcitone, chimes, cornet and bowed psaltery –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Rough Romanian Soul
Record producer, field recordist and author Ian Brennan is an interesting character, going off the beaten track to record music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
