Reviews
Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices
There's something plainly refreshing about witnessing an artist following their own path, uninhibited. Chandra's trilogy of albums – first released...
Reviewed by Anita Bhadani in issue: August/September/2023
Rumba Africa
Emerging from the Congo, and flourishing even during that painful era when the country was renamed Zaire, African rumba became...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026
Westward the Light
There's a perception of the current crop of young Scottish trad bands that paints them all as playing their own...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
It's Klezmer!
The title says it all really. This is a solid collection of traditional tunes with a handful of originals, including...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2016
Past the Gates
Russian bands have only featured intermittently on the world music scene – one thinks of Sergei Starostin, the Terem Quartet...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
Que-vive!
Compagnie Rassegna are a band based in the south of France, led by guitarist Bruno Allary. They are also involved...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
De Mar y Río
How rough and ready do you want your roots music? From a small town on the Pacific coast of Colombia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2019
Inn of Love
There seems to be a growing fashion for young female singers of Turkish origin to be accompanied by European jazz...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Apr/May/2015
Summer in Lviv
It's 30 years since the creation of The Ukrainians, a unique phenomenon of British-indie-rock-meets-Ukrainian-tradition. It began with guitarist Peter Solowka...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2019
Ancoradouro
It is no minor achievement to have secured the blessing of Fausto Bordalo Dias. He is a key figure in...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016
