Reviews
The Nile Project: Aswan
In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Roll Me, Tumble Me
The Deadly Gentlemen sport a thoroughbred bluegrass line-up of guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and double bass, and are fronted by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Anarchy & Romance
OK, this is really wacky. But then, what else did you expect from the impish German DJ who set Euro...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Kyoku: Japanese Chamber Music
Mieko Miyazaki & Suizan Lagrost
The sounds of the koto, shakuhachi and shamisen on this excellent CD seem familiar, yet Japanese chamber music is not...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Gone Away Backward
There should be a special award for this kind of high-level deployment of a musical ensemble. Fulks, a skilled acoustic...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Wenu Wenu
It’s something of a mystery why Souleyman, a 47-year-old wedding singer from northern Syria, has become a phenomenon in Western...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
