Reviews
Five Albums
In recent years Natacha Atlas has significantly changed musical direction and now stands on the threshold of venerable diva status....
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Harp Vs Harp
Edmar Castañeda & Grégoire Maret
This is a classy jazz and global fusion set, featuring virtuoso duets by two musicians from wildly different backgrounds who...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2019
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
The Young Man's Harp
Born in Mali in 1974, Noumoussa Soumaoro – aka Vieux Kanteé – began playing the six-string hunter's harp known as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
This is How the Ladies Dance
Battle of the Folk Bands winners at the 2018 Edinburgh Tradfest, Glasgow-based five-piece Eabhal originally came together on the isle...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2019
The Elizabethan Session
Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Balkan Express
Following the recent fusion-oriented album Enigma, Danish reedsman Bjonko Stosic and band return with a more traditional take on the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023
Air Senegal
The Israeli-born Aylon won a Best Artist nomination in the Songlines World Music Awards for his 2021 album Xalam. That...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
Brave Land
Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022
A Quiet House
At the heart of Julie Murphy’s austerely beautiful album is her song ‘You Are Flown From Me’. She sings of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
