Reviews
78rpm
Like the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Canadian trio of Sheesham Crow on fiddle and harmonica, Lotus Wight, on banjo and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
Chouf!
Now this looks promising. An Algerian rock album recorded at the Real World studios in Wiltshire with the great Justin...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2021
Al Qantara
Majid Bekkas is a Moroccan multi-instrumentalist who has previously explored the meeting points between Maghrebi Gnawa music and the blues....
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2014
Dance of the Cobra
To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Bach to Folk
Max Baillie is a British-German classical violin virtuoso who has worked with Björk; Erik Rydvall, a Swede who plays the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022
Cadence Revolution 1973-1981: Disque Debs International Vol 2
Volume two of Strut's exploration of Disque Debs International recordings - the longest-running and most prolific label of the French...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2020
Under the Shade of Violets
The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015
African Woman
Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
