Reviews
Mahal
Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022
Radial
Griselda Sanderson plays the nyckelharpa, a keyed Swedish fiddle instrument with sympathetic strings that dates back 600 years. A short...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
Force of the Wind
SOYUZ, which translates as ‘Union’ is a creative collective from Belarus, and this third album is definitely true to the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2022
Sousamaphone
The rising popularity of American brass bands – Hot 8 Brass Band and Dirty Dozen Brass Band from New Orleans...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Helsinki: Shangri-La
When was the last time you heard Finnish hip-hop? Been a while? Well, on the evidence of Paleface, you should...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Gitana Mora
This new release from La Banda Morisca comes with an attractive 35-page booklet (in Spanish only) containing florid journalism along...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: October/2020
The Rough Guide to Gypsy Revival
World Music Network handle all the Rough Guide compilations and in recent years have done a series of Gypsy-themed CDs....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Heading Out
After first meeting in the Sage Gateshead's influential Folkestra, violinist Kevin Lees and guitarist Matthew Jones became key members of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2020
Tell My Sister
They were the unlikeliest of pop stars: two sisters from the ancient Laurentian moun¬tain range north¬west of Montreal, plain-spoken homebodies...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
