Reviews
Canaich
As is traditional for a Scottish Highland male, fiddler Duncan Chisholm isn’t one to get too demonstrative in the material...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010
MTMTMK
The combination of the Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and the London-based electro production team Radioclit made The Very Best's debut...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Baila Sahara Baila
Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi
This is the final album from one of the great voices of the Sahara: Mariem Hassan died in August 2015...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2016
You’ve Been a Friend to Me
Sonya Cohen Cramer was a remarkable singer born into a distinguished American folk music family; her father was John Cohen...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/2024
The Shovel Dance
Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
Parlour Ballads
Parlour ballads, as a genre, get poor press as low-grade, middle-class Victoriana, but here’s Jon Boden at the piano (and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2024
Luoteniegut
Joik vocalist Ulla Pirttijärvi is among northern Finland’s strongest Indigenous voices. Pirttijärvi combines her powerful singing with West African influences...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2025
Our Garden Needs its Flowers
A very welcome reissue of an oddity from the Ivory Coast that was a huge regional hit when issued in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2018
Loud and Clear
Active for 20 years, Otava Yo are probably the most successful Russian band on the world music scene with their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2024
The Moral of the Elephant
We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014
