Reviews
Master of the Cajun Accordion
Gathering together Abshire's mid-60s to mid-70s recordings, this album captures 25 performances from one of the giants of Cajun music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance delivers straight up traditional bluegrass balladry and honky-tonk crooning with authentic aplomb. Canadian-based, The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2022
Polka for Punks
Thirty-five years on, the anarchic spirit of punk keeps emerging in unlikely places, from the Beijing underground to R.U.T.A, the...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2013
Zomba Prison Project: I Have No Everything Here
In 2013, producer Ian Brennan clandestinely documented the music found inside Zomba's maximum security institution in Malawi. Some of the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2015
Duo Vargoz
Re-exploring repertoires of oral tradition and rearranging them is a fairly common approach in the world of traditional music today....
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: June/2022
À Principiu
À Principiu is the fifth studio album from the forward-thinking Corsican group L'Alba. The band who combine traditional Corsican music...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2021
Aquí Los Bravos
Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo
Every time a new album comes out of one of Colombia's coastal regions, one fact becomes ever clearer: if it...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011
Whorls
Jeremy Kittel's last album, Chasing Sparks, is one of the most perfect fiddle albums you could ever hope to hear....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2018
To Måner
Valkyrien Allstars are hot property in Norway and they’re beginning to spread their fiery folk–rock outside the Norwegian borders. At...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2010
Veena Dreams
Raghunath Manet is originally from Puducherry in South India and splits his time between there and France. He is not...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2023
