Reviews
Tibet: Music & Prayers from the Yellow Hats Monasteries, Tashilhunpo, Ganden, Séra
Since the early 1960s, most releases by the 15th-century Reformed School Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhist monks have been recorded at their...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2016
The Deepest Lake
Four years since Cannibal Courtship, Dengue Fever's fifth studio album of original material is self-released under the banner of Tuk...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: March/2015
Guitar Maestro
Known as much for his books on guitar playing as his virtuosity, Spanish maestro Juan Martín possesses quite a lineage....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
Tiddukla
The banjo has been a popular instrument in Moroccan music since the early 1970s, when it was first introduced by...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Cats, Dogs and Ghosts
Kottarashky is Nikola Gruev, a young Bulgarian composer and producer whose 2009 debut album Opa Hey! demonstrated a fluid,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Singing Ways to Feel More Junior
Since finding his solo mojo with What's Here What's Gone, praised in these very pages for repurposing the kind of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Čihkkojuvon
These pages are sprinkled with bands that blend pop, hip-hop, reggae and jazz with traditional influences, but prog and hard...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: May/2021
Eternal Light
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Anil Srinivasan
Lalgudi Krishnan is the son of the famous violin legend Lalgudi Jayaraman, and for this recording he has teamed up...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2011
Bergå Folk Project
Sometimes, even the best folk bands can make an album that feels a bit like another re-hash of the tried...
Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: October/2022
