Reviews
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
This is a concept album of sorts from the husband-and-wife team of drummer Frank Rosaly and singer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti,...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2024
Grand Ukulele
Like banjo maestro Bela Fleck, Japanese-Hawaiian ukulele whiz Jake Shimabukuro has been obsessed with expanding the repertoire and reputation of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013
Sun Without the Heat
New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: May/2024
Sròmos
Piper and flute player with popular Scottish band Breabach, James Duncan Mackenzie comes from Back on the Isle of Lewis...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018
Guajira Mas Guajira
More than half a century ago, Maria Ochoa used to sit in a hammock on the family's farm in rural...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Dose a Nova
Now that the Balkan Beats hyperbole appears to be out of fashion, erstwhile pioneers of the genre Ori Kaplan and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
Folk Music of China Vol 3: Folk Songs of Yunnan
The title of this album would be more accurate with a subtitle of The Wa, Blang, and De'ang, as these...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: April/2020
Can You Feel It?
Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
Wenu Wenu
It’s something of a mystery why Souleyman, a 47-year-old wedding singer from northern Syria, has become a phenomenon in Western...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Sky is the Same Colour Everywhere
Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté
In recent years the kora has proven to be remarkably adaptable in duetting with non-African instruments. On The Sky is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
