Reviews
Sublime Ragas
A foremost protégé of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Kartik Seshadri has very rapidly emerged as one of the world's best...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2012
Big Brothers
Veteran Jamaican roots singer Winston McAnuff and French accordionist Fixi collaborate again here on a long-awaited second album; McAnuff used...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: December/2018
Far Out Presents Brazilian Bass
Often electronic music from Brazil is represented either by the laid-back qualities of electronic bossa nova or the rattling beats...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Riverboat Soul
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
Hailing from Missouri, US, Pokey LaFarge took off at a young age on the open road, hitching rides with anything...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2010
Cuttin' Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions
Multi-time Grammy and Americana music award winner, country music singer-songwriter and actor Sturgill Simpson has fed 20 of his original...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
The Gloaming
Their live performances last summer positioned The Gloaming as one of the most exciting developments in Irish traditional music in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2014
Arthur Verocai
The eponymous debut album of Arthur Verocai, originally released in 1972, is one of those albums that history quickly forgot...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
The Original Sound of Burkina Faso
Bordered by Mali, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Niger, and with a population that spans some 60 different...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017
Europeana
Jaune Toujours are the rambunctious and eclectic Belgian sextet led by singer and accordionist Piet Maris. This is their first...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Under the Rose Tree
Derya Türkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos
As a disciple of Ross Daly and a player of the lyra (bowed lute) Sokratis Sinopoulos was always going to...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
