Reviews
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
Aynaabe
The traditional bowed violin of the Senegalese Peul shepherds is called nianiorou or riti. Former shepherd Issa Sow is perhaps...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
GALW
You've heard freeform jazz. What about freeform, avant-garde, New Age, Welsh folk music? This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Window to the World
If anyone should record this ‘Tribute to Milton Nascimento’, then maybe it's this Grammy-nominated singer-pianist. ‘I was born into the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2022
Tudo Está Bom
Back in 2009, Playing for Change became an unexpected global success. It involved street musicians from across the world (and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2023
Afterlife
Aussie saxophonist Matt Keegan has spearheaded an extraordinary fusion on Afterlife, combining Indian folk voice and verse with buoyant baritone...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2022
Set Me Free
Keyna Wilkins & Jalal Mahamede
Last year from his detention cell in Brisbane, Ahwazi Arab refugee poet-artist Jalal Mahamede recited his poems via Zoom while...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: May/2022
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India
This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Apr/May/2015
Songs Lost & Stolen
In 2008 Bella Hardy, a young singer from Edale in Derbyshire, stepped onto the stage at the Royal Albert Hall...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011
True Speech
This is one of the most dynamic and accomplished folk groups from Eastern Europe I've heard in a long time....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
