Reviews
Breath & Hammer
Clarinettist David Krakauer played with The Klezmatics before forging a distinctive solo career that pushes at the boundaries of many...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2020
Murmurs
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr
Nancy Kerr just won Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Martin Simpson is no...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
Singles As Bs & 12 Inches
Osibisa were brave pioneers – a band of Ghanian, Nigerian and Caribbean musicians who came together in London at the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
Wesele!
Tęgie Chłopy are one of Poland's best new traditional groups, reviving the repertoire of the Kielce region in central Poland....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018
Mambas
Keyboardist Jean Baptiste FerrÉ was born in Paris, with a mixed French and Guadeloupian heritage. His studies spanned classical and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Tin Fiddle
Your ears could be forgiven for presuming there was at least one percussionist, guitarist or mandolin player on this album....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: August/2017
Let Them Speak
This is an album recorded by 18 musicians, separated by 18,000km. The Umoza Music Project is a joint Malawian and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2015
What News
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness
Conceived in isolation during the spring of 2020, this recording is the solo debut by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren (of Širom...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2021
Atlantic Beat: Mad’in Portugal
There is a variety of ways of ordering a coffee in Portugal: OqueStrada tells us all about it in ‘Café...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
