Reviews
Tirana 100
Over the last half a century or so there have been many attempts to reveal ‘Europe’s unknown music,’ which usually...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021
Upon a Stranger Shore
O’Connor is a member of a big folk family from Cumbria – her brother Joe’s band Last Orders won the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Simurg
Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel
Simurg is the third album from Belgian psychedelic collective Compro Oro. The album is a collaboration between the group and...
Reviewed by Marek Tymków in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Our World in Song
Wu Man, Luis Conte & Daniel Ho
“What would it sound like,” pondered Wu Man, “if I played folk songs from around the world such as ‘Frère...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Secret Victory
There was an impressive self-titled EP last year from this Canadian power-folk trio but their live-sounding, full-length album debut is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015
Sam Sweeney's Fiddle: Made in the Great War
In 2008, Sam Sweeney bought a new instrument – at least, it appeared to be new. But a label inside...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Encores
How the mighty fall. Charles Aznavour is one of the last remaining French icons from an era where only the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015
Caribbean in America 1915-1962
No niche is too specialist for France's Frémeaux label. This release contains a whopping 66 tracks. But then again, American...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
August 1791
Led by Richard Morse, proprietor of the celebrated Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, RAM were last heard from before the disastrous...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2018
Roll Up the Night Sky
Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2015
