Reviews
DOST 2
Derya Yıldırım's vocal style may not be to everyone's taste. Compared to Anatolian pop living-legend Selda Bağcan, with whom Yıldırım...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: December/2022
La Confusion
The ninth studio album from the blind Malian duo opens with ‘Bofou Safou’, a disco-fied electro-pop excursion that you'd be...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
The Imam Baildi Cookbook
This is the second album by the Athens-based band, and it's nothing if not varied. Taking some of their own...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
Pendulum
Virginian banjo player, singer, and songwriter Morgan O’Kane has delivered a powerful punch of a second album. Many of the...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Annwn
Catrin Finch was a child prodigy. She started learning the harp at the age of five, scored the highest marks...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011
Under the Shade of Violets
The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015
The Definitive Doc Watson
Folk-singer-ophobes may find an unlikely ally in American roots singer Tim O’Brien, who astutely summarises Doc Watson’s appeal in the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Dvojka
Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
