Reviews
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
Wick to Wickham
Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015
AH!
Trad.Attack! is the latest group to combine traditional folk music styles with a contemporary approach. Formed by a trio of...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2015
The Rough Guide to the Best Arabic Music You’ve Never Heard
Compared to many other regions, the amount of Middle Eastern music released in the West is very small. And most...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: December/2015
