Reviews
Nightshade
This is one of the most spare recordings I have heard in some time. It is, very simply, fiddler Bryony...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Jag Changa
When the folk-rocker from Mysore, Raghu Dixit, launched himself on an unsuspecting world in 2008, he didn’t take no for...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Paris Session
Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli keyboardist Idan Raichel have followed up their 2012 debut with an equally richly...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Blikkspor
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Master
Warren Cuccurullo & Ustad Sultan Khan
The West has been actively seeking out musical meetings with the East ever since Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Nine Decades Vol IV: A Night at St John the Divine
Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya testifies in the liner notes to the particular ‘magical, transcendent experience’ of her husband performing in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
In the Kingdom of Dub
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed by Michael Brown in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
On Down the Line
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper
A recipient of nine International Bluegrass Music Association Fiddler of the Year Awards, Michael Alexander is universally recognised as one...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Africainement Vôtre
Magic System, the Ivory Coast's most successful proponents of zouglou – a mix of zouk, ragga and soca music –...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Tuning Pegs & Fishing Line
Albums marketed as collaborations between world music artists and musicians from the developed world are often subject to the dreaded...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
