Reviews
Kafilah Nights: Malay-Arabic Variations from 1960s Indonesia
M Mashabi & His Kelana Ria Orchestra
This collection is a precious insight into the music scene of 1960s Indonesia. Formed by Adi Karso and Munif Bahasuan,...
Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: January/February/2024
LAS
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes Haberlin
Now here’s something pretty remarkable, the first album of double C smallpipes to be released anywhere in the world. LAS...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022
These Feral Lands Vol 1
Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
The music is typical Laura Cannell: open, chordal (lots of over-bowed violin), improvised. It’s the presence of Stewart Lee on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2021
Kite
The concentration of young folk talent in the north-east of England may be related to the much-praised degree course in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Another Day, Another Story
There is a purity and precision to James Findlay’s rendering of songs and tunes from the English folk tradition. He...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Helleristning
Alapnes was five when she stood in her grandfather’s kitchen in North Norway learning how to hold the fiddle that...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
Carry Me Home
The theatrical and often comical approach to their kaleidoscope of Americana makes you want to see how The Dustbowl Revival...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Mazes
On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...
Reviewed by Charlie Long in issue: April/2020
Sarda Sarda
This debut album was born of a serendipitous encounter in a tattoo studio between a record label’s talent scout and...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: September/2024
