Reviews
Plaint of Lapwing
Alasdair Roberts & James Green
Alasdair Roberts has a busy and productive muse – with a long line of striking solo records behind him, recent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
A Delicate Game
Comprising singer Claire Hastings, pianist Tina Jordan Rees, fiddler Gráinne Brady and Heather Downie on clarsach (harp), Top Floor Taivers’...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2017
Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet
This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2016
Rio de Janeiro
If too much sun leads to a prematurely furrowed brow, no-one's told Joyce: it's difficult to think of another sexagenarian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Apr/May/2012
Daughter of the Spring
Reviewing Mor Karbasi's debut CD, it was tempting to compare her with Yasmin Levy, a fellow Jerusalemborn Sephardic singer. It...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Yumi Kagura
Kagura is an ancient form of Japanese Shinto sacred music and dance, which accompanies the ritual chanting of mythological tales....
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Stepping It Out Again!
Taken from recordings made by song collector and field-recorder John Howson between 1975 and 2000, this set of 24 songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
