Reviews
Live in Paris
The Master Musicians of Joujouka
The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Between the Sky & Prairie
The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho
Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018
Owl Light
This is the debut album from an Oxfordshire folk trio that has emerged from the folk group Telling the Bees,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018
Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film
Divorced from the documentary that it soundtracks [reviewed on p103], Sounds And Silence effectively becomes a plain and simple ECM...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
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
