Reviews
Silêncio
It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
The Outlander
On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Emerging from The Gloaming's five-strong fold, Hardanger d'amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and pianist Thomas Bartlett have struck of to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019
Jaiyede Afro
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014
Musakayike
Although this duo from Malawi have been touring far and wide since the release of their last album in 2019,...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: August/September/2022
Alep-Brest
Aleppo in northern Syria has lived through tragedy. Its name now resonates with the pain of a brutal war, which...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
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Vōytek (The Bear)
Klezmer has a rebel soul and this is certainly not absent in Tantz's debut album. The fact that they have...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
No Borders
At 78 years young, Masekela sounds as fiercely committed and as vibrant as ever on what is the 44th album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017
Romancing the Past
Urbane male voices, in unison, constitute a vital force in Latin American folk music. In Mexico, one of the most...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Ear Snacks
That this San Francisco-based band records and performs with numerous like-minded guests suggests the current good health of country rock...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2023
