Reviews
Mazel Tov!
Klezmer comes in all shapes and sizes and this band is no exception – a group of Italian women with...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2016
Lunar Love
Mop Mop, an Italian instrumental quartet, released the very impressive Isle of Magic album back in 2013. There, they looked...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
Blue White Gold
It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
Soô
Perhaps it was recording 2012’s Brothers in Bamako with the American bluesman Eric Bibb that persuaded Habib Koité it was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2014
Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87
By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2022
Harponium
Scottish harper Catriona McKay says that with her latest album she is ‘fusing the timbres of harp and harmonium into...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
LAUTyodeln: Fern-Nah-Weit
This is a selection of the finest yodels performed at LAUTyodeln, a festival in Munich last June. It displays the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2017
