Reviews
Up From The Deep
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
The Lost Tapes
The Lost Tapes is the fourth album from the Owiny Sigoma Band and sadly it celebrates the end of the...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2022
Kaira
Toumani Diabaté | Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
This was the album that created an icon. The late Toumani Diabaté released his debut Kaira in 1988 and it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2025
Japanistan
This recording by Paris-based instrumentalist Kengo Saito appears to occupy a niche of one, being a cross-section of music from...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Diversions Vol 3: Songs from the Shipyards
In a remarkably prolific year for The Unthanks, this album follows hard on the heels of their mighty collaboration with...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Time of the Skeleton Lords
The monastery of Tashi Lhunpo, seat of the Panchen Lama (second only to the Dalai Lama), is probably the most...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Bend in the Light
Hailing from K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, classically trained Ellen Gibling’s keen interest in Irish traditional music is given free rein...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2022
The Light of the Moon
Forged in Orkney in 2015 by Aidan Moodie (vocals and acoustic guitar) and Graham Rorie (fiddle and mandolin), and with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2021
The Rough Guide to Bollywood
This compilation could just as easily be called The Genius of Rahul Dev Burman. No fewer than nine of the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011
Casita de Campo
Jose Manuel Cobles, aka Puerto Plata, is an 83–year–old legend from the Dominican Republic who draws on song styles from...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
