Reviews
The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters
The African-American songster tradition was for many years regarded as a poor relation of the Delta blues: its repertoire of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
What are Those for Songs!
Otava Yo have existed since 2004 and are popular across much of the former Soviet Bloc. The six-piece are essentially...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
The Iqrit Files
The Palestinian refugee camps of the Middle East are a hotbed of musical creativity, although there are few outlets for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Live in Bangalore
Performing in Bangalore in February 2012 (around ten months before his death) Ravi Shankar is on top form here, alongside...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2015
From Source to Sea
The belt had snapped on my turntable, so I resorted to the USB tucked into the handsome gatefold vinyl set...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
Never Stop Moving
The lead singer with the folk-rock institution known as Oysterband, John Jones is pictured striding purposefully across a panoramic landscape,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2015
I Dreamt I Was a Bird
The Derby folk singer's third album follows the politically engaged Single Flame and builds on the traditional and original songs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2015
Live in Stockholm 1969
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar & Pandit Taranath
The rudra veena (or bīn) player Zia Mohiuddin Dagar came from one of the oldest musical lineages in India, a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2015
Remembering
Remembering is a curious mix. Mostly made up of self-penned songs, the album marks a new direction for Ross Ainslie...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2015
Luys i Luso
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
The supreme art form in Armenian culture is, I would argue, its ecclesiastical architecture. Those rugged churches with conical domes...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2015
