Reviews
Amalgam
Amjad, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Khan & Elmira Darvarova
Ever since Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin recorded the violin and sitar duos of West Meets East in the 1960s,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Spirit Bird
He may have been around for a decade, but there is still a youthful urgency to Rudd’s music. He mixes...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012
Gamelan of Java, Volume IV: Puspa Warna
Lyrichord's latest two discs highlight Javanese gamelan music's diversity. On Puspa Warna, musicians from central Java perform some of the...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2011
Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting is a great musician, known best for his work with other people. His melodeon (squeezebox) playing was crucial...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Song Hành
This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: June/2012
Horse Camp
The Lowest Pair & Small Town Therapy
In 2020, while camping in the Pacific Northwest, Kendl Winter (vocals, banjo, guitar) and Palmer T Lee (vocals, banjo, guitar),...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023
Andalusian Love Song
David Broza & The Andalusian Orchestra Ashkelon
The most striking thing about this release is that it celebrates the often-overlooked Sephardic Jewish tradition of music that has...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
Sakai Ishinage Odori
The Sakai Ishinage Odori Preservation Society
This recording, or rather pair of recordings (one from 1982 and one from 2017), is the second release in an...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019
Soul of My City
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
From the gleeful rockabilly throb of ‘Let's Go Back in Time, Man’ via infectious celebrations of cross-dressing (‘Life is a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2019
