Reviews
Apikorsim/Heretics
From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016
Try Paradise
It's hard to tell who or what the wellspring of this album is, and, I might be wrong, but on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2023
Utopia
This is the Russian band Markscheider Kunst’s fifth album and for my money their least satisfying. Which is ironic considering...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2010
Seekers and Finders
What's left to say about Gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello? Not much on the strength of this, their seventh album....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017
Vangaza!
Zambia lies geographically between Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo and is one of the musically less prolific countries...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2015
Hawaiian Guitar
This album, a rerelease of Hawaiian guitar music recorded roughly 30 years ago, is a little like the aural version...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2012
Ahol az Ökör is Bort Iszik!
Magos are a fine Hungarian folk band playing authentic village music, mostly from Romanian Transylvania. They and their violinist Csaba...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
Alchemy
Having first discovered medieval and Renaissance melodies at the age of four through her recorder playing, then taken up the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2017
Inuusiq/Life
In order to secure his bandmate Nancy Mike's hand in marriage, The Jerry Cans’ lead singer and guitarist Andrew Morrison...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2017
No More the Green Hills
‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022
