Reviews
150 Voices
Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020
Ghost
In her first album of all-new material since 2010, Rusby plays a set of traditional and original songs loosely themed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Festa!
North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Dominion
This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Deva
Deva Premal is a German national who embraced Indian spirituality in 1990 when staying with the controversial guru Osho at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Folk Music of China Vol 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik & Russian Minorities
You would be forgiven for mistaking this album for one from the former Soviet Union. It is instead music by...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Malandras del Tango
For contemporary tango bands, there's always a temptation to play Piazzolla repertoire with a few old classics thrown in. Tango...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Eboni Band
In 1981, Motown producer Art Stewart travelled to Abidjan to scope out the possibility of a series of African-American collaborations...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021
Inland Sea
I was first drawn to the music of Stephan Micus by his piece written for 56 flowerpots in the 1980s....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
Coda: A Concluding Event
The male a capella trio bring their close-harmonies and politically engaged and socially conscious music-making to a close with Coda....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
