Reviews
Off Beaten Tracks
There’s a palpable electricity to an Urban Folk Quartet gig. It surges through the musicians and into the crowd when...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: July/2012
Encantações
Brazilian music has shown for some time a spectacular porousness and a seeming ease in introducing traditional forms to modern...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2017
Roots of Ska: USA Jamaica 1942-62
In his book Bass Culture, the writer Lloyd Bradley vividly evokes the era before ska and rocksteady eras in 50s...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Aurum
It says a lot about violinist Gjermund Larsen that he has been a significant performer with top Norwegian folk band...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Music from Barotseland: Recordings in Zambia's Western Province
This is a companion piece to the four-CD Luangwa to Livingstone, reviewed in #157. Zambia's Western Province is traditionally known...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2020
The Adventures of Captain Ward
The Demon Barbers’ live reputation goes before them, cemented by their Best Live Act award at the BBC Radio 2...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010
Romantech
The New York Gypsy All Stars are a young five-piece band, playing contemporary Turkish and Balkan music. I was lucky...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
The Rough Guide to Ali Akbar Khan
It is rare for a single musician to be called the greatest living musician of his time, yet that is...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: November/2018
Cicada
As someone once noted, if you haven’t heard them, it’s hard to describe what Hazmat Modine do, but if you...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Freedom Cry:Condemned Choirs
More than 550 men and women sit on death row in Uganda's prisons, condemned for crimes that include not only...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
