Reviews
Rakhshani Love Songs & Trance Music from Balochistan
This is music from a sadly neglected part of the world. Hopefully this great double CD will bring attention to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
My Dusty Road
In these digital days of iTunes and Spotify, in which the disc and the very notion of music as a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Circle Songs
When we think of Pygmy music it is primarily the vocal gymnastics that spring to mind; usually with an organic...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
BEATrio
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez
In 2024, after a 12-show run at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, gazillion-time Grammy-winning, globe-trotting, banjo maestro Béla Fleck,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
Crown And Country
This is a very unusual Australian album, featuring the spoken and singing voices of Warlpiri elders Wantarri ‘Wanta’ Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2026
Money Isn’t Everything
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
They may be based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra have fallen for old-time Americana hook,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2013
Something Blue
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
First, a caveat: Rob Heron and his sharp-as-nails orchestra hail from old Newcastle, the one on the River Tyne in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Osharaku
The Kasai Osharaku Preservation Society and Others
Available as a two-disc CD or 12” vinyl, this compilation is the latest in an ongoing preservation series by EM...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019
Old Man Below
The Dust Busters with John Cohen
Formed in 2008, The Dust Busters are the upper crust of the new generation of old-time string bands that have...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2013
Jamaica-Mento 1951-1958
Reggae snobs bristle whenever they hear mento described as “Jamaican calypso”. Admittedly, it’s a lazy way of putting it, but...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2010
