Reviews
fygame
Cultural borders are a lot older, and more cloudy, than geo-political, linguistic and ethnic borders, and this recording demonstrates that...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2025
Songbooks Live
The excellent quintet WÖR utilises violin, bagpipes, accordion, guitar and saxophones to reimagine 18th-century tunes from the Flanders region of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2026
Blessing On the Wing
The shadows cast by the current US government upon its Canadian neighbour haven’t darkened the sunny sharing of musical styles...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2026
L’amour à la folie
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
El Hal/The Feeling
El Hal/The Feeling is the first album in five years from the Anglo-Moroccan septet, led by the gimbri and voice...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2021
Fall Away Blues
Kalamazoo, Michigan-based duo Red Tail Ring describe their music as ‘old-time roots, new-time sounds.’ Their description aptly sums up the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2017
Mouasalat Ila Jacad el Ard
Largely unknown outside a small group of Arabic record collectors, Lebanese artist Issam Hajali's debut is finally getting the release...
Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: March/2020
Havana Cultura – The Search Continues
We've been here before, sort of. Three years ago BBC DJ Gilles Peterson enlisted the help of his musician mate...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Şatellites
Şatellites are a brilliant Tel Aviv Turkish-psych cover band – but they’re also much more than that. Some of their...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2022
Dur-Dur, Vol 5
It looks to me like this decade is seeing a huge growth in sales of retro world music albums, which...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: June/2013
