Reviews
Songs Lost & Stolen
In 2008 Bella Hardy, a young singer from Edale in Derbyshire, stepped onto the stage at the Royal Albert Hall...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011
Round Top Wagon
Thomas McCarthy was brought up on the Travellers’ site in Ladbroke Grove, although he spent a lot of time in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
N'Diale
Jacky Molard Quartet & Foune Diarra Trio
The musics of West Africa and the Celtic world might appear unlikely bedfellows but they're far from strangers. We've heard...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2011
Chaiyya Chaiyya
Bollywood Brass Band feat Rafaqat Ali Khan
This fourth outing by the Bollywood Brass Band – a British, multicultural celebration of the Bollywood sound – sees two...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Ivresses
Alireza Ghorbani & Dorsaf Hamdani
Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani and Tunisian singer Dorsaf Hamdani here have teamed up for a celebration of the poetry of...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2011
God Speed the Plough
Our views of history are at best partial and often misguided. Historians go to great lengths to put us right....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011
Rakhshani Love Songs & Trance Music from Balochistan
This is music from a sadly neglected part of the world. Hopefully this great double CD will bring attention to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011
Schladtzshe!
Raise your glasses and drink a toast: the new CD by Finnish harmonica quartet Sväng has arrived. This brilliant foursome...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2011
From Africa With Fury: Rise
Last year, Femi Kuti made the finest album of his career with Africa For Africa [reviewed in #73], a back-to-basics...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
Balkanica! v2
This album is the second in the Balkan-ica! series from Green Queen Music, an Italian label run by Luca Gatti...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2011
