Reviews
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
Poor Strange Girl
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer from Ripponden in West Yorkshire, Alice Jones has been around folk music since she was...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Stringhenge
An extremely talented classical guitarist, Richard Durrant wears his considerable talents lightly aross this 22-track double CD. Containing a charming...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2018
It’ll be Fine
Ceol An Aire are a four-piece ceilidh band from Oban, in the West of Scotland, three of whom are still...
Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: July/2014
Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah
The credits on this double album by the young dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer contain the intriguing line:...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
twelvemonth and a day
Based in Columbus, Georgia, this sextet boasts three professors, a music academy director, doctoral candidate and orchestra executive in its...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022
Horse Camp
The Lowest Pair & Small Town Therapy
In 2020, while camping in the Pacific Northwest, Kendl Winter (vocals, banjo, guitar) and Palmer T Lee (vocals, banjo, guitar),...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023
12 Bombazos Bailables
Considering the sheer amount of quality music that came out of Colombia from the 50s through to the 70s, highlighted...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2020
Chalo
This charitable 28-track compilation aims to raise the profile of South Asian music, bringing together artists from the region and...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2021
The Rough Guide to Sufi Music
Six years ago, I attended the grandly titled World Performing Arts Festival in the Pakistani city of Lahore, and was...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
