Reviews
Last Breaths from Aleppo
One of the side effects of the Syrian civil war has been its threat to the rich Sufi musical tradition...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2023
Last Night a Woman Saved My Life
Last Night a Woman Saved My Life is a mesmerising journey into the space between Western minimalism and Middle Eastern...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: December/2023
Prisoner
There have been many fine reggae artists to come out of Africa since Bob Marley played in Zimbabwe in 1980...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025
Paseo a Dos
There are some collaborations that work so well you wish they were permanent. One reason for the success of this...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2016
Wood Works
This is the not the first jazz or folk release from a classical string quartet that started life as an...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2014
Overheard
Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Tinn Tout
Danyèl Waro has spent the past 45 years becoming the international ambassador of maloya, the revolutionary roots music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
The Lines We Draw Together
The Sheffield fiddler, banjoist and songwriter taps into the rich new vein of folk music with theatre, historical memoir, poetry...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2019
Indestructible
The brassy, bouncing opening bars of ‘Moreno Soy’, the first track of Indestructible, will make flamenco fans’ hearts pound to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017
Jerusalem
Tsege-Mariam Gebru is an emahoy (sister) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, living a hermetic life in Jerusalem at 99 years...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2023
