Reviews
Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean
The volcanic archipelago of the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar includes La Réunion, Mauritius and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2021
To an Isle in the Water
Brisk's music sounds thoroughly and authentically Irish, so it comes as a big surprise to discover the quartet are actually...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2019
A Tarot of the Green Wood
The seven songs on this third studio album from Burd Ellen, the Glasgow-based project featuring Debbie Armour and Gayle Brogan,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail
As a member of the progressive bluegrass band the Punch Brothers, banjo player Noam Pikelny has made a name for...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Tovafelé: Music from Beyond the Carpathian Mountains
Tuz Lángja are a young Hungarian band, drawing on the traditions of the Csángó people, who live in an enclave...
Reviewed by Balázs Weyer in issue: July/2011
Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017
How can one possibly put together a compilation of the most exciting, musically adventurous trio in British folk without leaving...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2017
Spell Songs II: Let the Light In
You might just catch the diminutive cheep of the wren at the end of ‘St Kilda Wren’ – blink and...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
Jaliya Silokang (The Path of a Griot)
Over the past decade, Gambian-born griot Suntou Susso has collaborated with his half-brother Seckou Keita, toured with his father Mamudou...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: February/March/2026
Luys i Luso
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
The supreme art form in Armenian culture is, I would argue, its ecclesiastical architecture. Those rugged churches with conical domes...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2015
All About Jazz
Kojato & the Afro Latin Cougaritas
There are comparatively few musicians from Liberia in West Africa who have received international exposure, and Kojo Ebenezer Samuels is...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2012
