Reviews
The World That I Knew
Dublin-based duo VARO – singers and fiddlers Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Nerea Breschi, from France and Italy respectively – are...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2025
Rhymes With Orange
An enthusiastic duo from Bristol comprised of guitarist and singer Jon Lewis and singer and percussionist Jah-Man Aggrey, originally from...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Seljord anno 1935
When fiddler and writer Per Anders Buen Garnås, son of the famous singer Agnes Buen Garnås, added to his already...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Khun Narin is the latest band to emerge from Thailand's north-east region, Isan, following the popularity of numerous YouTube uploads...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Nobody Knows You
One thing that quickly becomes apparent about the Steep Canyon Rangers is that they don’t quite have the degree of...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012
All It Brings
All It Brings begins with fiddler Jocelyn Pettit step dancing in that familiar cantering cadence of Scots-Irish-French origin that Canadians...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022
Racines
Zal Sissokho & Laurent Perrault Jolicoeur
Straight ahead jazz and Mande music coalesce with glorious results on Racines, a collaboration between Canadian double-bassist Laurent Perrault-Jolicoeur and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2026
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
