Reviews
The Art of Sarangi
A reissue of recordings made in 1971, this disc features the maestro Ram Narayan, who became the first internationally renowned...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: November/2017
Last
Last begins with ‘Gan to the Kye’, a Northumbrian complaint about the local men taken by rebels, leaving only the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011
Vol II
Twenty years ago, inspired by a series of concerts at the Largo club in Los Angeles where a mad-scientist-in-the-laboratory vibe...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2022
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed by Susan Wilson in issue: June/2010
Great Expectation
A folk style with ensemble vocals, banjo and distinct African percussion, mento was Jamaica's leading style from the 1920s onwards,...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Lus
Cesaria Evora may have put the Cape Verde islands on the musical map, but the next generation of artists from...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
A Thousand Thoughts
David Harrington and his colleagues have long been intrepid world music adventurers, expanding the string quartet repertoire with works from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
No More Wings
The harpist Rachel Hair, weary of the angelic associations of her instrument, determined with her third album to reveal another...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
Político
The Mexican Institute of Sound certainly know how to have a knees-up – in the pot of musical treats is...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
