Reviews
Whispering Sky
Tibetan musician and composer Tenzin Choegyal has been in exile from his home country since the 1970s and based in...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2024
Inspirar
Danças Ocultas | Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras
‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025
Folk Awards 2010
Folk is a music built for hard times. So it’s entirely fitting that Show of Hands’ protest at recent outrages...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Three Voices
Jitka Šuranska, Irén Lovász & Michal Elia Kamal
This album was recorded live at the wonderful-sounding Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic, a place for sharing music...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Hireth
A few accordion notes conjure the scene. Noir. Tanya Brittain makes her entrance: a wronged woman, bent on revenge. ‘Don’t...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020
Con Todo el Mundo
Take the surf versions of Middle Eastern folk tunes ‘Misirlou’ and ‘Hava Nagila’. Blend them with dub, 1960s Iranian pop...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
Hedûr: Solace of Time
If you have seen Aynur in Crossing the Bridge, the successful 2005 documentary by Fatih Akin about music in Istanbul,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2020
Devil’s Tale
Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia
You don’t expect an album from Fanfare Ciocarlia, the Balkans’ most fiery brass band, to open with reverb-drenched electric guitar,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2014
La Dôtu Lado
Right from the melancholic opening chords of a pair of acoustic guitars, you know you're in for a treat. Coladera...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2019
