Reviews
Yellow Roses
Nominated in the Best Emerging Artist category of the RTÉ Folk Awards 2024, Niamh Bury is swiftly rising as one...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
Sensible or Otherwise
Widely regarded as one of the UK’s finest flatpicking guitarists, Charlotte Carrivick offers up a dozen tasty instrumental tracks on...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2025
Norwegian Electronic Folk Music
Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
Norway has a thriving and intriguing experimental folk scene, and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Lien is one of its key exponents. I...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
MandolinMan Plays Bossa Nova
As their name might suggest, the Belgian quartet MandolinMan are all mandolin players. Their first album, Old Tunes, Dusted Down,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2020
DOST 2
Derya Yıldırım's vocal style may not be to everyone's taste. Compared to Anatolian pop living-legend Selda Bağcan, with whom Yıldırım...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: December/2022
The Rough Guide To Music Without Frontiers
The compilation market is over-crowded; genuinely valid albums offering anything new are so rare that it is hard to suppress...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Balkan Beats: A Night in Berlin
Of the many Balkan and Gypsy compilation series out there, Robert Soko’s Balkan Beats has always stood out for its...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: March/2010
The SLAM! Years (1983-88)
Born in Libya but long based in Egypt, Hamid El Shaeri is a superstar of popular Arabic music. This album...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
The Next Generation
Groundation are a reggae group who formed at Sonoma State University in 1998. The original members were all studying jazz...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018
Cruzando Borders
The Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs play music that celebrates the people and places of the Texas-Mexico borderlands: corridos, boleros and less...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
