Reviews
Moving Home
From Bosnia to Brisbane via Sweden and Slovenia, the Australian-based trio East of West span all points of the compass...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
Amor Fati
Fatima Szalay is a young Hungarian singer who trained at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and this is her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2024
Tech Duinn
Emerging from the creative collaboration between Catalan music-maker Marc Fernández and Irish composer-producer Leo Pearson, Tech Duinn features at its...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2025
Snow Flower
A gently plucked lilting waltz played on the Tibetan dranyen lute by Tenzin Choegyal begins the title-track. Sung in a...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2025
Copperdollar: The Back of Beyond
This is the work of DJ Marc Stylus, resident disc spinner with the freaky immersive theatre company Copperdollar. Emerging out...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2014
Meuseucca Servadze
From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023
World Routes: On The Road
World Routes (currently broadcast on Sunday evenings) is BBC Radio 3’s flagship world music programme. And to my knowledge, there...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
A Day Will Come
Last summer, when the people of Britain were discussing leaving the European Union and what this meant, harmonica and melodeon...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2020
Hanggai Big Band Brass 2019
Hanggai have been performing interpretations of traditional music from both Inner Mongolia in China (where they hail from) and the...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2019
Coming Home
Ghanaian highlife appears to be regaining its popularity of late, and those who witnessed Pat Thomas at WOMAD in July...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016
