Reviews
MTV Unplugged
This album, recorded in 2011 in Miami and first released at the end of May 2012, made number one in...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013
La Huella de las Cuerdas
Classical guitarist Berta Rojas presents a high-concept multimedia project that explores the history of the guitar across Latin America. Over...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2026
The Rip Tide
Unlike previous Beirut albums, there's precious little evidence of Zach Condon's cosmopolitan taste in music here. Gone are the mariachi...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Inconceivable Mazurkas
This is a real find: a remarkable family trio comprising Jan Malisz and his two children,12-year-old Zuzanna and 16-year-old Kacper,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2015
Mystic Dance
The third album from the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir is a tour de force that builds and expands on...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
Sita
A formidable talent, an enfant prodige of the Salento music scene, Alessia Tondo, the female voice of the marvellous Canzoniere...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022
I Dreamed an Island
Piers Faccini created a beautiful duo album, Songs of Time Lost, with cellist Vincent Segal in 2014. But the British...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
FOLKMOSIS
Beth Malcolm’s follow-up to her 2023 debut album, Kissed and Cried, presents a delightful musical triptych that takes the listener...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/March/2025
At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Albanian Song
This is a journey into the mountains of southern Albania with producer Joe Boyd and engineer Jerry Boys. Boyd and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
