Reviews
Journey Across the Steppes
Recordings of Turkmen musicians are few and far between. Oghlan Bakhshi, born Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad in 1993, is a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2023
Raga Yaman
Uday Bhawalkar is a maestro of dhrupad, an ancient Indian classical vocal style, believed to be the world's oldest musical...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/September/2023
Babi
Touareg music hasn't always been about electric guitars and the Tamashek quartet Al Bilali Soudan (an ancient name for the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
LL25
There are 16 musicians supporting The London Lasses in celebrating their 25 years together on LL25, a generous 14-track album...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2023
Das Nuvens
Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento
Fabiano do Nascimento was born and raised in Rio and São Paulo. For the last decade or so he's been...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo
Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo
Recorded 45 years ago in the north Brazilian town of Belém and released on the Erla - Estudio Rauland label,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/September/2023
The Ones Ahead
As he entered his seventies, the classically-trained Canada-based singer/composer Glenn-Copeland was lapsing into dignified retirement. Then he made public his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
City of Gold
With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle and producer/dobro guitar maestro Jerry Douglas have accomplished their self-appointed mission, which was to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2023
The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh
Recorded live in the Shakh Synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic, The Wolf and the Lamb is a klezmer album that...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2023
Pura Sangre
Israel Fernández is one of the biggest names in the younger generation of flamenco cantaores. As such, he stands between...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: August/September/2023
