Reviews
North India: Sangeet Trio in Concert
This live recording of ‘Raga Jog’, made in Paris in 1995, brought together for the first time three fascinating representatives...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Odoïa
This is the second album from the Ensemble Mze Shina, which means ‘Inner Sun’ in Georgian. e four singers, Denise...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
Areas of High Traffic
Yorkshire-based Ulsterman Damien O’Kane is a familiar name from his key role alongside his wife, Kate Rusby, in her band,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Karaim Music Map
This is the first full album of Karaim music, ever, apparently. The Karaim are a diasporic community of contentious origin,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2021
Nubiyan Twist
London-based 12-piece Nubiyan Twist have become well-known for their live performances over the past few years, and this, their first...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Apr/May/2015
Chasing Sparks
Fine instrumentalists such as the fiddler Jeremy Kittel will sound good even when the material they're playing isn't quite worthy...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Bennesbeh Labokra… Chou?
This is an interesting release – Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanon’s foremost diva, Fairuz, and her husband, Assi...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2021
Straum, Stille
Recorded by the Norwegian mini¬malist chamber-folk trio in Oslo’s Sofien¬berg Church, you can pretty much get the hang of Straum,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
El Alma de Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, the term jíbaro can refer positively to a mountain-dwelling rural worker or, snobbishly, to a supposedly ignorant...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
