Reviews
Caraguatá: Guitar Works from Uruguay
Away from Montevideo and the coastal resorts, Uruguay is a peaceful, pastoral country where rhythms and rituals have changed very...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2014
Homage to Wayan Lotring
This double CD features the only surviving clear recordings of one of the most important Balinese musicians of modern times,...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2020
New Road
It's been 11 years since Barry released his first solo album and in that time the north Kerry piper has...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Ruby
Shujaat Husain Khan & Katayoun Goudarzi
This meeting of sitar player Shujaat Husain Khan and singer Katayoun Goudarzi brings together the North Indian musical heritage of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2016
Loving a Fool
This debut album, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, is a masterclass in presenting old and new side by side. Tumbling...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2014
Indigo Soul
A confident and exhilarating album, Indigo Soul suffers slightly from a trade description issue. Unnati is presented as a ‘London...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Street of Minarets
Described as a ‘gesture of gratitude and admiration’ from the 50-something Dhafer Youssef of today to his teenage self, this...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: March/2023
Treasures of Algiers Chaâbi
Much like the traditional fado of Lisbon or the rebetika of Piraeus, chaâbi is often described as being the blues...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2013
Urban Bratsch
One of the earliest French non-Gypsy groups to espouse Gypsy music, mainly of Eastern European origin, Bratsch have 40 years...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
