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Finally given a UK release, this colla¬boration between two past masters dates back to 2007, and pretty much steers clear...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Music of Central Asia Vol Eight: Rainbow
Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov & Homayun Sakhi
This clearly shows the Music of Central Asia discs moving in a different direction – away from purely traditional music...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Hatchling
Emily Portman’s debut album, The Glamoury (reviewed in #68), launched a distinctive voice and songwriter on the 21st century folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Natural Invention
Peter Knight's Gigspanner Big Band
After four decades with Steeleye Span, in 2009 fiddle player Peter Knight formed Gigspanner (the touring musician's name for that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2020
Guia
It wasn't until Caetano Veloso spoke highly of him in his blog that Antonio Zambujo began getting the due recognition...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Chants Berbères de Kabylie
In the middle part of the 20th century, pioneering poets, writers and singers rediscovered micro¬cosms of traditional culture that had...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: July/2010
Gentle Men
Both of Robb Johnson’s grandfathers endured the third Battle of Ypres and the songwriter was invited to compose music for...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Africa Mia
Pre-dating the great Africando by a quarter of a century, Las Maravillas de Mali were one of the early pioneers...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2019
Nostalgique Porto Rico: Plenas, Guarachas, Boléros et Chansons Jibaras 1940-1960
Long before Ricky Martin and Daddy Yankee seduced the diaspora with their very different hybrid pop rhythms, the island of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2019
Dor an Enez
When he was 14 Fred Guichen founded a band with his brother Jean-Charles. To the traditional fest noz line-up –...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2019
