Reviews
Incidents & Accidents
The best tracks on British singer and banjo player Dan Walsh's previous album, The Same but Different, were its solo...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
Benji & Rita
Benji Kaplan and Rita Figueiredo's first album as a duo is a curious, avant-garde mish-mash. For the most part, the...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: July/2019
Rags & Robes
Twenty four-year-old Scottish folk singer Ewan McLennan's star is very much on the rise. In February, he won the Horizon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2011
Skyscrapers & Deities
There have been plenty of well-meaning summit meetings over the years between West African and European musicians, partnerships that have...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2012
Here & There
Folk guitar virtuoso and music professor Dimitris Mystakidis started playing professionally as a 16-year-old in Thessaloniki, inspired by his mother's...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Sílvia & Salvador
Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Salvador Sobral
Whenever two high-profile singers make an album together there is the possibility of courting disaster. But Sílvia Pérez Cruz and...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025
Meråkerklarinetten: Traditional Norwegian Clarinet Tunes from Trøndelag
Bjørn Aksdal and Geir Egil Larsen
Norwegian fiddles have taken up a fair few column inches recently, with so many excellent young fiddlers releasing some fine...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Influence
The Count and the Cuban Cocktail
The ever-expanding Cuban diaspora notwithstanding, there's something slightly bizarre about the circumstances of this debut album – recorded by a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015
Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010
The Gift Band | Various Artists
There's not been, to my knowledge, a live album from Norma Waterson. So give a warm hand, please, for this...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
Are Watching You
Joey Herzfeld and His So-Called Friends
This job can be hard sometimes. Here we have an album of immaculately arranged, professionally performed songs with well-crafted lyrics,...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2016
