Reviews
The Groove Maker
Gurdain Rayatt, a disciple of Shankar Ghosh, recorded his solo tabla recital from the Darbar Festival live at Kings Place...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Longing Kind
‘For this album I didn’t want to hide behind historical disasters and mythological beastsat the expense of my own experience,’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2016
The Blue Room
A fiddler with a characteristically delicate touch, Martin Hayes has won worldwide respect for his unique take on Irish traditional...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
The Berlin Session
In the 1980s, Dur-Dur Band were one of Somalia's biggest groups, in high demand and performing their uniquely Somali disco...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2023
Here & Gone Again
The twanging lap steel of The Honeycutters’ Matt Smith sets a countrified tone for ‘Make Us Stay’, the opening track...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Resistance
The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
The Last Bell
Alan Kelly plays piano accordion with great verve and subtlety. His gang consist of: Steph Geremia on flute and vocals;...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015
Meuseucca Servadze
From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023
The Butcher's Share
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
If The Klezmatics were the pre-eminent klezmer band of the 1990s, I suspect Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird might...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay
It's titled Nothing More because there is nothing more by Fotheringay out there than the 52 tracks on this three-CD...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
