Reviews
Cumbia Beat Vol 3
Few places in the world were seemingly unaffected by the emergence of electric guitars and the success of The Beatles...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Como la Luna y el Sol
There is now a legion of different approaches to Sephardic song but two predominate. There’s the scholarly, supposedly authentic manner,...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2014
303
Combine the following ingredients – trumpet, guitar, mandolin, banjo, lute harp, lyre harp, dulcitone, chimes, cornet and bowed psaltery –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Bendewarî/İntizar/Longing
Sakina Teyna is a traditional singer who was born into a Kurdish family in Varto, a small town in the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2019
Ritmos Queridos
Based in France, where he organises Marseille's annual Tambory Canto Latin music festival at the Cité de la Musique, Simon...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2020
The People
The People is the first album from MA Rouf, the latest band of Iranian-Finnish composer and musician Marouf Majidi. Majidi...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Colour by Number
Having grown up in Australia’s Northern Territory city of Darwin, singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan proudly claims a mixed multicultural heritage that...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Kind of Folk: Vol 1 Sweden
Mysterious flutes beckon us into a forest. A haunting fiddle beguiles us with tunes from an age gone by. A...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2017
Tidens Ekko
Vingefang are a duo comprising Lene Høst and Miriam Ariana, who are both former students of Scandinavian folk music at...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2018
Letters from Iraq
Rahim AlHaj learned to play the oud (lute) as a schoolboy in Iraq and went on to study under Munir...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2017
