Reviews
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition
In 1965, Who's That Knocking? by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard demolished forever a de facto gender barrier within the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
Uneven Sky
This is a hugely ambitious and timely double album from the New York-based, Syrian-born virtuoso clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh....
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: June/2019
Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions
The friendship between Seu Jorge and Rogê goes back 25 years when the two aspiring musicians met at a gig...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020
Songs Without Authors Vol 1
Every emerging folk singer likes to think their interpretation offers the listener a chance to hear, to think, something new:...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2021
Albat Alawi Op 99
Eyal El Wahab, the young music maker behind El Khat, is a true original. Many of his homemade instruments are...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2022
Alku: The Beginning
Violin, voice and jouhikko (Finnish bowed lyre) make for a powerful combination in this solo album from Päivi Hirvonen, who...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2018
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Tambolero
Rather than simply remaster the breakthrough 1993 album, La Candela Viva, from the Afro-Colombian singer Totó la Momposina, the folks...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
3
There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
