Reviews
What Makes You
Indie folk champions Elephant Sessions return with their second album, and a cracker it is too. Winners of Live Act...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Sun Dogs
Comprising Ireland's Nuala Kennedy and Norway's Frode Haltli and Vegar Vårdal, Snowflake Trio provide a rare mix of jigs and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2019
Live in Mostar
Divanhana are a young Sarajevo-based band who have an old-fashioned work ethic: they get on the road and tour! This...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
Melokáane
Born in Senegal but resident in Canada for the past 20 years, percussionist Elage Diouf has toured the world with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
Victor Menace!!!
Victor Menace sounds like a cartoon debt collector but is in fact Ruth Theodore’s new band. Her previous album, White...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Flight
Afro Celt Sound System's 20th anniversary comeback, 2016's The Source, was a big success, winning them a Songlines Music Award...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Chante Adonis
Both the singer Abed Azrié and the poet Adonis (the pen-name of Ali Ahmad Said Esber) are typical of a...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2012
Some Strange Country
Crooked Still, the most exciting bluegrass bandcurrently on the American scene, are a groupof five who met at the music...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2011
You Etched Your Face in Mine
There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
