Reviews
Brave Land
Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022
Griot Classique
A decade younger than his cousin Toumani, the kora player Mamadou Diabaté is arguably the better-known of the two in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song
Trump's America ought to be a fertile breeding ground for modern protest songs, but if they're out there, we don't...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2019
Bahaghari
Broadway star Lea Salonga is one of the most famous singers in the Philippines. To showcase the incredible diversity of...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: March/2018
Undercurrent
Accompanied by a line-up different from her familiar touring trio of recent years, Sarah Jarosz offers Undercurrent, which serves as...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Live in Paris
The Master Musicians of Joujouka
The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Between the Sky & Prairie
The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho
Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018
Iaith Enaid: The Language of the Soul
Traditional Welsh harp music isn’t for everyone. But, since 1983, Robin Huw Bowen, the only full-time professional Welsh harpist specialising...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015
Calypso Travels
Lord Invader & His Calypso Group
One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
The Young Man's Harp
Born in Mali in 1974, Noumoussa Soumaoro – aka Vieux Kanteé – began playing the six-string hunter's harp known as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
