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Review of This is What I Want to Say

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Pipe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of Woven Landscapes

Woven Landscapes

Karavan Sarai

Karavan Sarai

Rating: ★★

Karavan Sarai is a band led by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Narayan Sijan, who plays a variety of Turkish and...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: March/2016

Review of House of Jacks

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Painted

Painted

Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble

Birmingham Conservatoire

Rating: ★★★

Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2017

Review of Another Place

Another Place

PACHYMAN | Pachyman

ATO Records

Rating: ★★★★

When Pachyman (Pachy García) left San Juan for Los Angeles back in the day, he carried a love of dub...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2025

Review of Agôra

Agôra

Caixa Cubo

Jazz and Milk

Rating: ★★★

This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Review of Agôra

Agôra

Caixa Cubo

Jazz and Milk

Rating: ★★★

This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Review of My Bluegrass Heart

My Bluegrass Heart

Béla Fleck

Top of the World

Renew Records/BMG

Rating: ★★★★★

Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021

Review of Galactic Gala

Galactic Gala

Silla + Rise

Rise Ashen Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mixing century-old traditional vocals with the latest sonic technology has always been an attractive yet dangerous musical venture. More often...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: April/2020

Review of Blyde Lasses

Blyde Lasses

Frances Wilkins & Claire White

Briggiestane Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Though they’ve been performing as a duo since 2006, Blyde Lasses is the debut album by Frances Wilkins and Claire...

Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: June/2014

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