Reviews
Mac Ìle: The Music of Fraser Shaw
In 2015 Fraser Shaw, multi-talented piper, whistle player and composer, sadly died at the young age of 34. Mac Ìle...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2017
Anthologie
An energetic and multi-talented singer and lutenist, Lili Boniche was born in the Jewish sector of the Algiers Casbah in1921...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013
Ballads and Songs from the Appalachians
Hedy West is perhaps best remembered today as composer of the folk standard ‘500 Miles’ – a song that she...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Ambush
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
With Ambush, Latin jazz specialists In The Woods present a tight eight-track collection that revolves around the work of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: February/March/2026
Echoes of Indus
While Pakistan has undoubtedly given the world some outstanding classical vocalists, Pakistani instrumentalists have, by and large, remained in obscurity...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2013
Griot Blues
Mighty Mo Rodgers & Baba Sissoko
The septuagenarian black American bluesman Mighty Mo Rodgers and the Malian griot Baba Sissoko met on tour in Lithuania in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
Blue Lotus the Awakening
Mau Power (aka Patrick Mau) hails from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait – that chain of Australian islands between...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Maya: Bickram Ghosh’s Dedication to Ravi Shankar
One oft-cited example of the musicianship of sitar legend Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, is that he was the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: May/2017
Giant + Guitar
Wewantsounds continues its remarkable work in excavating long deleted Arabic albums of the 1970s and reissuing them on LP (and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: January/February/2022
Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana
Now here’s an intriguing album. Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana is an impressive experimental guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from Italy who has built...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2024
