Reviews
The Treasure of our Ancestors
This album is a decent enough attempt to document the folk music of Madagascar's Betsileo region, made in the village...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: November/2016
Matilda
The jouhikko (ancient Finnish bowed lyre) has a unique place in the mysterious histories of Finland and Karelia, and its...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2018
The Rough Guide to Latin Psychedelia
Just as the rhetoric and posturing of the late 60s and early 70s counter-culture resonated across the planet, so too...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2013
Bërbili
Situated at the nexus of the Romantic and Slavic worlds, yet with their roots in Albania, the songs of the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2020
Tradition II
Ranagri are an Anglo-Irish four-piece combining vocals, guitars, bouzouki, flute, whistle, harp, bodhrán and drums, its name drawn from the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
Across the Field
Across the Field has an appealingly ramshackle, rough-edged, home-made quality across its seven tracks. There is a refreshingly quirky and...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2019
Aimez Ces Airs
DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson
Now this album could well be lighting up summer 2019; its mix of Afrobeat rhythms and reggae vocals – with...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019
Excavated Shellac: An Alternative History of the World’s Music
What should you give someone who listens to a broad swath of ‘global music’? How about a 100-track compilation of...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2021
