Reviews
Tierra Quemada
Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
Sunda Country: The Art of the Gamelan Degung
Gamelan degung is one of the smaller types of gamelan ensembles. This disc, recorded between 1972 and 1973, features two...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2016
Horizonte
This is an unusual and adventurous project in which two bands have been formed in order to re-imagine a mixture...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2020
Ora Doci Ora Margos
Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2015
King of Highlife Anthology
This is the largest compilation of recordings by ET Mensah that anyone has ever seen. It means that, perhaps for...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Apr/May/2015
Mugham Souls
Gochag Askarov & Pierre de Trégomain
Gochag Askarov is a top singer of mugham, the sophisticated vocal tradition of Azerbaijan. Although recorded in concert in Baku's...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2017
Contours of Cairngorm (Live)
Opening with the sweetly rousing ‘Sunrise’, Mhairi Hall and Patsy Reid’s Contours of Cairngorm is an accomplished and polished collaboration....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Fell
Bosky and fecund, the second album from Northumberland's Brothers Gillespie is steeped in the gently lilting folk sensibility and travelling-man...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
Balkan Grooves
And so the Balkan train rolls on. Berlin label Eastblok – one of the first to the party with DJ...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Kwenge
Kareyce Fotso is an African renaissance woman. A bio–chemistry graduate with a diploma in broadcasting and photography, the Cameroonian singer...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
