DARIN LAYNE amp JASON MCKENZIE Left of Sunday Afternoon

Sep 23,2009
Darin Layne & Jason McKenzieLeft of Sunday AfternoonThis delightful and highly inventive East-West fusion project centers on Darin Layne’s nylon- and steel-string acoustic guitar arrangements and Jason McKenzie’s tasteful tabla More...

Innerviews Music Without Borders Anil Prasad

Oct 10,2010
Anil Prasad established innerviews.org in 1994, and quickly gained a reputation among readers and artists for incisive and substantive journalism. Ten of the 24 interviewees here are guitarists—Martin Carthy, Michael Hedges, John More...

Makajodama Makajodama

Jun 1,2010
Swedish guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and pedal-steel player Mathias Danielsson is flanked by violin, cello, drums, and guest brass, reed, and woodwind players on this magnificent disc of largely improvised More...

Ali Farka Toure amp Toumani Diabate Ali and Toumani

Jun 1,2010
This mesmerizing album by these Malian greats—Toure on guitar and vocals and Diabate on kora— features 11 songs that intertwine melodies and tonal textures to create a unique musical conversation. A beautiful last More...

Timucin Sahin Quartet BAFA

Jun 1,2010
Wielding his signature Erkan Sizarlar 6- and fretless 7-string doubleneck, Turkish guitarist Timucin Sahin’s truly avant-garde jazz concept is brilliantly realized by New York young lions saxophonist John O’ Gallagher, More...

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

Jul 1,2010
This Blu-ray disc packages Jonathan Demme’s extraordinary 1983 concert footage with two 5.1 surround (audience and studio) and stereo mixes, two bonus tracks, commentary by Demme and the band, the Heads’ 1999 More...

GIANNI GUARRACINO Gypsyland

Jan 25,2010
Besides being a virtuosic acoustic and electric player, Guarracino is a fine composer and arranger and has worked in that capacity with major artists such as Gino Paoli, Edoardo De Crescenzo, Sal Da Vinci, and legendary More...

Rez Abbasi’s Invocation, Suno Suno

Jan 24,2012
On his eighth release, the Pakistani-American jazz composer and guitarist further consolidates his cross-continental amalgam of musical styles, this time more fully assimilating the Sufi devotional music known as qawwali—though More...

Quick Hit SANTI PICÓ amp ADRIÀ GRANDIA Loop Project

Feb 25,2010
This intriguing disc of masterfully effected and looped electric guitar and hurdy-gurdy—yes, you read that correctly—music traverses a rich tapestry of largely ambient musical colors and textures while successfully avoiding most More...

HARRY MANX Bread and Buddha

Dec 4,2009
Harry ManxBread and Buddha CANADIAN GUITARIST AND SINGER-SONGWRITER Harry Manx is an artist that critics have occasionally had a hard time getting their minds around. His unique amalgam of blues and other American roots music, More...

Reviewed: Jermaine Landsberger, Getting’ Blazed

Apr 27,2009
GERMAN-BORN PIANIST AND ORGANIST JERMAINE LANDSBERGER was raised in a Sinti gypsy family, where he was steeped in the music of Django Reinhardt and the Roma gypsies.Originally a guitarist as well as a pianist, Landsberger More...

Reviewed: Dengue Fever's Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (DVD and CD)

Apr 17,2009
THIS IS NOT JUST YET ANOTHER BUNCH of American musicians playing psychedelic Cambodian music from the ’60s and ’70s. Dengue Fever is a six-piece American band from Los Angeles that plays pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian rock music, with More...

Phil Keagy And Jeff Johnson Frio Suite

Apr 1,2010
Inspired by time spent at a lodge alongside the Frio River in Texas, this lovely music is introspective and pastoral in turns, somehow managing to sound both lush and delicate at the same time. Johnson’s pretty keyboard More...