Reviews
Dirt is Good
Perhaps we can forego debating the tastiness of the mouse-on-a-stick, a Malawi delicacy hawked by this eight-piece combo when they...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014
In the Key of Joy
Parental guidance: multitude of guest artists. The rapper Common, for example, (dis)graces the opening track on the venerable Mr Mendes'...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
Aur
Amazingly, this is only the fourth studio album from the long-established Cardiff-based traditional music group, Carreg Lafar. These champions of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017
Dubbing with Anansi
Neil ‘Mad Professor’ Fraser returns with another dub album, a medium in which this apprentice of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry seems...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2015
Rolling Back
Hungarian Gypsy band Parno Graszt hail from the village of Paszab in the north-east of the country. Led by tambura...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
Fathoms
Each of them is an acclaimed solo artist in their own right, but together, The Furrow Collective continue to be...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Festyval
Hailing from Oldham, The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by guitarist Peter Solowka (he being of Ukrainian and Yugoslav heritage)....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Trio
The tanbur is a longnecked, fretted string instrument with a hemispheric body. It came to epitomise classical music for the...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2012
