Reviews
Quesaco?
Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...
Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022
Sài Gòn, Saïgon
Huong Thanh & Franck Tortiller
To Saigon for a postmodern nostalgia trip; here, veteran Vietnamese vocalist Huong Thanh revisits the songs of French colonial Vietnam,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2017
Sole Mates
Two years or so past their quarter-century anniversary, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends have put together an album of shanties and...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: July/2018
Raizes
As one of the UK’s most prolific Brazilian musicians, the percussionist Adriano Adewale has amassed an impressive list of credits...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014
Estación Edén: Guitar Works from Uruguay II
While tango jostles with rock nacional and popular dance rhythms like cumbia in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, once you escape...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2016
Ryan Young
This hotly tipped, er, young Scottish fiddler has won, and been nominated for a plethora of folk and fiddling awards....
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2017
Lift Up!
Mighty Soul Brass Band, are on first listen, another band in the great New Orleans marching band tradition. Yet a...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Apr/May/2015
Hatching Hares
A one-time member of early music-cum-folk ensembles Wilde Roses and the Mediaeval Baebes, Tam is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist with a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022
North Star
US-born singer-songwriter Kyle Carey has a pleasing voice, which she wields with deft assuredness and gentle charm. Her music, a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2015
