Reviews
Norwegian Electronic Folk Music
Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
Norway has a thriving and intriguing experimental folk scene, and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Lien is one of its key exponents. I...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Mexico: Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan
If you have ever happened to find yourself in a South American village when a fiesta is taking place, you’ll...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010
Fallow Ground
Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021
Where the Darkness Goes
Not surprisingly, this solo album from one third of long-established Canadian folk-pop trio Po’Girl sounds not entirely dissimilar to Po’Girl,...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Nordic Reflections
Maimu Jõgeda is an Estonian now living in Helsinki, and Nordic Reflections is her third album. It features nine original...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2025
Senegal 70
This trip back in time – some 40 years – is all courtesy of Analog Africa's crate-digger extraordinaire, Samy Ben...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Indo-Arabic Variations
As this 1980 album has been increasing in value over the years (original copies appear to go for around £50...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022
Shona Ritual Music
The mbira or lamellophone has one of the world's most hypnotic and transcendental sounds. Often called the thumb piano, a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Intizar
Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio
When I visited the national Fajr Music Festival in Tehran for the first time, I walked into a performance by...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2024
