Reviews
Sunday Never Comes
The global music community is beginning to notice another pioneering band from Portland, Oregon that has built a devoted local...
Reviewed by Jeff Hammarlund in issue: July/2012
Almost Home
The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Tin Can Trust
Arising out of east Los Angeles, Los Lobos first came together to play Mexican corridos (narrative ballads sung in Spanish),...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
Hunter & the Hunted
Fans of the softer, gentler side of the neo-folk Americana spectrum will be enthralled by Hunter & the Hunted, the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2016
O Ptácích a Rybách
BraAgas are a Czech female quartet (plus bassist Jan Hrbek) who featured on the bonus CD of Czech music with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Always Can’t Go On Forever
Since their widely acclaimed 2018 album Seven Sisters, which celebrated the cultural roots of the band, Don Kipper have been...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: January/February/2024
Wahj
On this, his second full-length album, Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based composer, artist and producer Toni Geitani pens a sonic thesis on Arabic...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: April/2026
World Routes: On The Road
World Routes (currently broadcast on Sunday evenings) is BBC Radio 3’s flagship world music programme. And to my knowledge, there...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959
This four-disc set of Paul Bowles’ recordings in Morocco in 1959 reproduces – with eight additional pieces – the original...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2016
