Reviews
Ye Katama Hod: The Belly of the City
Born in Somalia to Ethiopian and Italian parents, and now based in Italy, vocalist Saba Anglana found the inspiration for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2015
Invisible Music
The late, great writer Angela Carter would almost certainly have relished the fact that Polly Paulusma once lived in London’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2021
Anchor
Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy with The Gift Band
Norma Waterson and her daughter Eliza Carthy have sung together ever since Eliza first grasped language. Perhaps that is one...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2018
Thamesis
If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014
Trikala
One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician, or perhaps a South...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2019
Hiva
Ahmad Al Khatib & Kaveh Mahmudiyan
Ahmad Al Khatib and Kaveh Mahmudiyan have created Hiva, an album of traditional Ottoman-styled oud and percussion commissioned by Global...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: June/2024
Balkan Spirit
In the line of his previous productions, Jordi Savall’s Balkan Spirit covers another area of great musical traditions and intercultural...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Time Does Not Exist for Light
One shouldn’t have to begin by pointing out that sitar player Josh Feinberg is American, but non-Indian sitarists of this...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2020
