Reviews
Eek-Ology
There is clearly much more to Eek-A-Mouse than the man who made his mark by singing ‘bong bong biddy beng’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2014
A Window to Color
Mamak Khadem has been woefully neglected by UK world music promoters and producers. She started her performing career as lead...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2012
A Day Will Come
Last summer, when the people of Britain were discussing leaving the European Union and what this meant, harmonica and melodeon...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2020
Hawaiian Cowboy
‘‘Ohana’ is the Hawaiian word for ‘family’. And slack key is a form of tuning and playing guitar developed in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2024
The Speech Project
That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
Every Mortal Place
For 40 years, the great English squeezebox player, singer and Morris dancer, John Kirkpatrick, has lived in Shropshire. Every Mortal...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2013
Tiganeasca
French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs take their name from a Django Reinhardt tune. They formed around fiddlers and singers...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Song to a Refugee
After five fine albums of Appalachian-tinged folk songs, Diana Jones felt too devastated by the horror of Trump’s election to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Nouara
Although this is only his second album, Kamel El Harrachi is a well-known performer of chaabi, the Algerian popular music...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2021
