Reviews
The Collection
Gospel music is the biggest selling genre in South Africa and the Lusanda Spiritual Group rival Ladysmith Black Mambazo and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
The Dawning
Founding member of folk group Assynt, fiddler and composer Graham Mackenzie follows his 2016 solo debut Crossing Borders with a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2023
The Castalia
Edinburgh based fiddler Ratcliff’s beguiling debut is an evocative blend of traditional music cultures of Cape Breton, New Brunswick and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2022
The Unquiet
This new solo album from vocalist Pauline Scanlon offers striking, singularly personal interpretations of ten traditional songs that range from...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2022
The Seer
The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odhar, was a legendary 17th-century Gaelic prophet whose writings are the focus for this moody new...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2017
The End
“The sound of the album is supposed to take the organic instruments of Irish traditional music and lift them somewhere...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2025
Ukubonga
Lorraine Klaasen & Mongezi Ntaka
It was astonishing how quickly the resistance music of the townships – The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, as it was memorably...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Ilha d’Melodia
Ceuzany used to front Cordas do Sol, whose album Lume d’Lenha was apparently bought by one in ten Cape Verdeans....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2016
The Remarkable Return of Old Man Basco
Originally, Basco were formed as a vehicle for Hal Parfitt-Murray's music after he met members Anders Tophøj and Anders Ringgaard...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Rough Guide to Zakir Hussain
The tabla is India's best-known drum yet, traditionally, it was always ranked way down the pecking order of instruments, only...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2018
