Reviews
Serenity
Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan & Party
The shehnai (a double-reed wind instrument) has one of the richest and most mournful sounds in Indian music, but it’s...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
Fly Down Little Bird
Mike Seeger was widely mourned when he passed away in August 2009, aged 75. While not as famous as his...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Anthology of Indian Classical Music: A Tribute to Alain Daniélou
This three-LP set, recorded by Alain Daniélou, was first released in 1955. The recordings were groundbreaking in the 50s for...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2015
Festyval
Hailing from Oldham, The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by guitarist Peter Solowka (he being of Ukrainian and Yugoslav heritage)....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Khedmat Be Khalq
I stumbled upon this album by chance, via Bandcamp, and I am glad its algorithms led me there.I travelled through...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: July/2023
La Mélancolie Royale
Anyone who has visited the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul will know what a monstrous mess was created by the Ottomans...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019
White Night
The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
