Reviews

Nine Pin

Kaia Kater

Born to Afro-Caribbean parents in Québec and having lived and studied banjo in West Virginia's Appalachian mountains marks Kaia Kater...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2016

New Folk

Recoveco

Imagine if Peter Gabriel was commissioned – or perhaps forced – to record ‘La Bamba’ and reunite with his old...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018

Characters

Flo Perlin

Flo Perlin may cite diverse musical influences, given her extensive world travel and her Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, but in...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: October/2021

Alone (Ténéré)

Terakaft

Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015

Color

Papa Noel & Viviane A

Essentially this is a fusion album of French accordion café music with a Congolese slant. Papa Noel is a veteran...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2014

Wande

Samba Touré

Malian guitarist and vocalist Samba Touré was a protégé of Ali Farka Touré, having been a member of his touring...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2018

For One Touch

Tori Tango

Jure Tori is one of Slovenia's most celebrated accordionists, known for hopping with enviable ease between jazz, classical, Gypsy and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017

Meanders

Rob Harbron

A Labrador, catching the scent of rabbits in the bushes, sniffs about. ‘Polly in the Wood’, one of several lovely...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Big Sun

Chassol

Continuing his experiments with field recordings, Chassol here presents his third ‘ultrascore’, as he describes it, this time sourced from...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: July/2015

Aur

Carreg Lafar

Amazingly, this is only the fourth studio album from the long-established Cardiff-based traditional music group, Carreg Lafar. These champions of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017