Reviews
Tåreportens Pärla
The Kalevala, a 19th-century Finnish epic, inspired this mostly improvised dialogue between two of the country’s foremost folkies. Maria Kalaniemi...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: May/2026
Kurdish Alevi Laments
This is a tough listen, like eavesdropping on private, tragic moments in the life of a family. It's made even...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinell in issue: Apr/May/2012
Dance Me to Heaven
Victoria Klewin & The True Tones
Funded by fans and daydream believers comes this first album from a tight little unit currently making waves in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016
Fair Warning
Kami Thompson and James Walbourne's first release on Island's Pink Label imprint, once home to the likes of Fairport Convention,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
As Long as Songbirds Sing
Since meeting, literally on stage, at a late-night jam session in London’s West End, jazz and folk guitarist James Kitchman...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2020
December Moon
If you’ve a weak spot for sweet vocal harmonies, pop hooks and a soft musical bedding-down in the folk traditions...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Journey Through Latin America
Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
Mabanzo
This bubbly singer jokes that she grew up ‘pretty much everywhere,’ and there are certainly a lot of influences present...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022
A Viagem Das Horas
This is a reissue of music from a reclusive Brazilian musician who was long assumed dead or ‘disappeared’ by the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2021
Alrededor de la Húmisha: La Música de los Conjuntos Típicos Amazónicos de Perú
From the mid-1960s, musicians in Peru’s Amazon region began to record the hybrid folk styles that had evolved over five...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
