Reviews
Torb
One day Songlines will have to invent a prize for ‘most niche’ music genre and performer. Catalan medieval folk will...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Yn Fyw
This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010
Finesse
Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole
Evan Christopher is one of the US’s foremost young jazz musicians. Resident in New Orleans, he has worked with musicians...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010
Miramar
The traditions of few places in Europe have been as overwritten as those of the Balearic island of Mallorca. Even...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: August/September/2023
Ambiance Argile
Maël Salètes is a French musician who has enjoyed an intriguing and far-reaching career. He learned to play the djeli...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/2024
Malta's Lost Voices
Now that's what I call a CD set. A foot-tall board-encased booklet, shaped like an old gramophone loudspeaker trumpet, is...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2011
Aloha Radio Hawaii
A Chinese label recording vintage Hawaiian music in an ultra-modern California studio, with mostly non-native musicians? Go figure. But despite...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
Céu e Mar
Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds
It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
