Reviews
Fire, Sweat and Pastis
While collaborations bring together performers from all over the world, a project between Finnish and Beninese musicians still seems an...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Revel and Rhyme
This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2020
Murder, and the Birds
David A Jaycock has previously collaborated with Marry Waterson and James Yorkston. This album is a dark, eccentric exploration of...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2020
Deaf and Dumb Blues
Located in the Indian Ocean between Tanzania and Madagascar, the tiny Comoro islands represent one of the lesser-known outposts of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
Here and There
Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022
Ufulu 1991-1997
In urgent need of a bucketful of wholesome joy with none of the risks of eternal damnation? Katawa Singers have...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
Trails and Tribulations
Trails and Tribulations is consistently both beautiful, and beautifully crafted. It has an ambience of wistful, weary experience, thanks to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Workin' and Dreamin'
Hoth Brothers share an abiding affinity for unadulterated folk, old-time and classic country music and a hatred of the current...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2019
Neighbours and Sisters
This is the strong follow-up to The Crowing from the Brighton quartet composed of alt-folk artist Jinnwoo, folk duo Hickory...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Action! and Intensified
Desmond Dekker brought Jamaican music into the international pop charts – first with ‘007 (Shanty Town)’ in 1967 then in...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
