Reviews
The Definitive Collection
Sometime in the late 1980s I made a radio feature saluting the emergence of ‘New Wave English Country Dance Music.’...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Rough Guide to Blues & Beyond
‘If the purists don’t like it, then that’s tough’. So run the liner notes to The Rough Guide to Blues...
Reviewed by Lucy Wilson in issue: March/2010
Que Beleza
Another summer, another Ipanemas album, and if the British weather stays anything like as sweet as Que Beleza sounds, a...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Vocalism
The Zimbabwean singer Vusa Mkhaya, now resident in Vienna, is part of the vocal trio Insingini, which released the rather...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
The Works
John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
As I Open My Eyes
Khyam Allami's last recording, with his band Alif, featured some of the most innovative oud sounds yet heard. His radical...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2016
An Anthology of Mongolian Khöömii
This double CD is essential for anyone wishing to gain a balanced, comprehensive perspective of the many versions of overtone/undertone...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2017
The Boréales Sound of Northern Europe
This five-piece fiddle band from Norway got together a dozen years ago, meeting when most of them were studying at...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Tomorrow People: The Best of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Melody Makers, on the surface, look like Jamaica's version of the Jacksons. Featuring four of Bob Marley's numerous children...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2014
