Reviews
Songs of the Naxi of Southwest China
Residing in the Yunnan province of south-western China, the Naxi are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group, numbering around 320,000. Despite their...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2022
La Negra: The Definitive Collection
With neither ‘Gracias a la Vida’ nor ‘Maria Maria’ on it, this double album is not quite the definitive collection...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Guts, Lungs & Bones
Unfortunately this album doesn’t quite have the visceral clout promised by its excellent Waitsian title, although it’s hard to put...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Spinning Yarns
She's had seven years as the lead singer and flautist with Cape Breton traditional group The Outside Track, and a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Carn Ingli
Llio Rhydderch & Tomos Williams
A revered harpist, steeped in the music of Wales; a young jazz trumpeter; and a percussionist. This might seem an...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
Reprobates
‘The Steam Arm Man’, which opens this new set from the rock’n’ceilidh barnstormers from York, sports a Black Sabbath-style riff...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016
Didj Heart
Whitefella Aussie bushman Charlie McMahon is of Irish heritage, but he’s been experimenting with the traditional Aboriginal didgeridoo since 1956....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012
Chants Mystiques d’Algérie
Four years on from Renyate, her tribute to great, if sometimes marginal, Algerian female singers such as Meriem Fekkai, Fadela...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: April/2018
Altur Mur
You know that bit in From Dusk till Dawn when the film goes from kidnap story to vampire flick with...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2022
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017
