Reviews
Wasla
Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El-Din
Looking back over the last 20 years, it's amazing how the oud has risen from rank-and-file member of the takht...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Antipody
When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia
Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Lust
Louisa Lyne & Di Yiddishe Kapelye
Winning Der Idisher Idol 2019 has brought Louisa Lyne and her group Di Yiddishe Kapelye into prominence. Released on September...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
El Amor No es Para Débiles
Peru’s Bareto have responded to the departure of their lead singer Mauricio Mesones by recruiting a number of guest vocalists...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
Divine
Maria Tanase is often referred to as ‘the Romanian Piaf’: both were distinctive vocalists who took a local vernacular music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Murmuration
Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
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
