Reviews
Luxe
Yann Tambour is a French singer and composer who records under the name Encre and also Stranded Horse. He plays...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2016
Simigwa
On the opening track of this album, which was originally released in 1975, the Ghanaian bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley recites a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
Songs from the Seasons
York-based Burnell has spent a year or so collecting and rearranging traditional tunes, releasing a song a week with the...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2018
Sin Aperture
Well, this is a strange album. Sin Aperture is the debut from a London-based, self-declared ‘adventure musician’ named James Adams....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2015
Up
Two decades into a career that began by defining the Asian Underground scene, Karsh Kale's work has continued to develop...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: May/2016
A Föld Hátán, S Az Ég Alatt (Székelyföldi Népzene Az Elmúlt 120 Évből)
Marianna Nyitrai, Zoltán Juhász, Üsztürü Band
Zoltán Juhász, an ethnomusicologist and a renowned bagpipe, whistle and flute player joined Marianna Nyitrai, a famous folk singer, activist...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: March/2019
Iquitos – Amazonía – Perú
Through the 1970s Raul Llerena (aka Ranil) took his band up and down the Amazon from their base in Iquitos,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2020
As Catedrais Silenciadas
Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
‘Illas de Sal’, the final track of As Catedrais Silenciadas, was built around one of the countless field recordings that...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Lichtungen
The hurdy-gurdy is an instrument that lurks slightly in the shadows. It appears in a few folk bands, like Blowzabella,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2016
