Reviews

Trì

Rachel Hair Trio

Trì is Gaelic for three, and only three instruments – namely Rachel Hair's harp, Jenn Butterworth's guitar and the double...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2015

Diatakendiya

Jali Fily Cissokho

Given the name Cissokho, it is almost inevitable that this will be a fine example of West African griot music....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2016

Yet We Sing

Cara

Germany has enjoyed a long-standing love affair with Celtic music, and Cara, featuring four of Germany's finest traditional musicians and...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2016

Pintura

1982

Nils Økland, Sigbjorn Apeland and Øyvind Skarbø are outstanding musicians with a sense of adventure – I once saw them...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2012

Gryningsland

Folk’Avant

This Swedish-Finnish trio's name is their mission statement: they enliven the Nordic folk canon with avant-garde influences, finding a pleasing...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: April/2018

Brass Like it Hot

Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra

Dzambo Agusevi was born in 1987 into a Roma musical family in Strumica, Macedonia, and joined his father's orchestra playing...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2016

Discover

Carlos Nunez

Bagpipes are among the least sexy, fashionable or popular instruments on the planet – they’re a notch below the harmonica,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2013

Ayú

Barbatuques

Making music with their bodies is ‘what really matters,’ assert this mixed-gender 15-strong collective from São Paulo. While there are...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Fly Around

Water Tower

If a mash-up of bluegrass, folk, punk and psychedelia sounds tasty to your ears, Fly Around is your bowl of...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021

Cantos

Okonkolo

Capturing the slow-burning fervour of an Afro-Cuban bembe – the rituals paying homage to the orisha deities of the Santería...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021