Reviews
The Rough Guide to Undiscovered World
The Rough Guide to Un dis cove red World is a showcase compilation. It is the CD companion to record...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Upon a Stranger Shore
O’Connor is a member of a big folk family from Cumbria – her brother Joe’s band Last Orders won the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
En Yay Suh
If you start listening to this album at home, take it one meaty track at a time. The whole album...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
Rob Young’s book Electric Eden [reviewed in #73] surveyed the British folk tradition in the 20th century and this double...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Tanguísimo
This nine-CD Piazzolla bumper-pack gathers in one accordion-like sleeve a significant sampling of the recordings Astor Piazzolla made with various...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
In the Footprints of Rumi
The Rumi Ensemble was founded by Javid Afsari Rad [pictured], member of the renowned percussion ensemble Zarbang. It consists of...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Nosotras Somos
In the male– dominated world of flamenco, all-female groups like Las Migas are still a rarity – even in Catalonia’s...
Reviewed by Russell Parton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia
Few countries’ musical heritage has been pilfered so thoroughly as has Ethiopia’s in recent years. Rarely a month goes by...
Reviewed by John Howarth in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
