Reviews
Foggy Mountain Breakdown: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs
A couple of years ago, Tim Austin, one of the founders of the Lonesome River Band, kickstarted a project that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012
Blight and Blossom
Leader of the new-generation Albion Band, son of folk¬rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings and the child actor who played the young...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Songs of the Summer Realm
In 1960, Lerner and Loewe brought Camelot to the Broadway stage. In 1975, Rick Wakeman gave King Arthur the prog-rock...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2020
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021
Obacht! Musik aus Bayern 2
You will, no doubt, have heard of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the American Alan Lomax. But...
Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: June/2011
Addoh
On this, his debut album, guitarist and singer Oumar Konaté seeks to place himself among the ever-growing pantheon of Mali's...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
To the Tavern
The expert players of the London Klezmer Quartet here weave their skills together to create another carefully crafted sonic offering,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2016
Loosening the Strings
When I saw Ethiopian singer and krar (lyre) player Haymanot Tesfa perform at SOAS last year, it was very disappointing....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2019
Sand, Silt, Flint
Avant-garde folk doesn’t get much better than this. Fiona Soe Paing’s second solo album provides a brooding soundtrack to the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/February/2023
