Reviews
The InCider Sessions
Whatever fiddler Adam Summerhayes is on, I want some. He’s known for his formidable talent in classtcal and tolk traditions,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2020
Eat the Moon
Eat the Moon is the third album by FY5 – aka Finnders & Youngberg – and combines the swinging strings...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Innocent Road
Hitting the ‘play’ button is like cranking up a time machine set to Grand Ole Oprycirca 1960. The easy-chugging strains...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2017
In a Cosmic Ear
Up until their dissolution in the mid-1990s, Calabria's Re Niliu had been diving deep into traditional Italian peasant music, growing...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2015
RELAY Vol 2
This is the second volume of an ongoing series of download albums launched during the COVID-19 lockdown by The Little...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2020
Adoon Winding Nith
There's a distinctly spring-like zest and freshness about this new collection of Robert Burns songs, derived in part from the...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: June/2010
Cissoko Heritage
Born in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, Maher Cissoko’s claim to be the 73rd generation of a griot family...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021
Lina_Raül Refree
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Raül Refree made his name on the world music circuit by producing the acclaimed first album by...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: April/2020
Kashmir: Sufyana Kalam from Srinagar
Sufi music from Pakistan and India, particularly qawwali, is well-known, but the traditions of Kashmir are little-known – partly because...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Night Prayer
The brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are leading names in the art of dhrupad, an ancient pure classical song style...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012
