Reviews
Glory of the West
Here's an 18th-century fashion that needs reviving: the dance fan. Women took fans to dances to send elaborate signals as...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2018
Strì
The singer Maeve Mackinnon's third studio album, Strì (meaning ‘to strive’ or ‘to struggle’) is a beautiful piece of work....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018
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Nostalgique Armenie: Songs of Love, Hope, Exile and Improvisations (1942-1952)
This is a homage to the music of the Armenian diaspora. The liner notes state that the Caucasus is the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2018
Eghass Malan
This album of Touareg/Tamashek music from Niger is of a similar cultural background to popular groups like Etran Finatawa and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2018
The Tiree Songbook
Inspired by the Na Bàird Thirisdeach, an early 20th-century collection of songs and poems from the island of Tiree, this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018
Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2018
The Waters and the Wild
The first two tracks of this third album from the Dorset duo largely sum up the whole set. ‘The Hour...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2018
SOAR
Here, at last, is the long-awaited new album from that remarkable duo, the classically trained Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018
Duo
Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018
Absolutely The… Uniques
Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018
