Reviews
Ellipsis
Winner of the Musician of the Year title at the recent BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and a former BBC...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018
Il Mese del Rosario
Breaking moulds works best when you can demonstrate you’ve nailed the mould. The first two tracks of this scintillating second...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
Kamélé Yeleen
Moussa Pantio Diabaté & Baragnouma
Moussa Pantio Diabaté is a balafon (xylophone) player from Burkina Faso. With the help of Arts Council funding he was...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2013
There Are Birds in My Garden
This second album from the 20-year-old Derbyshire musician reveals a talent and a sense of adventurousness in terms of instrumentation...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011
Every Song Has its End: Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali
Over the last few years the Bamako-based producer Paul Chandler has travelled across Mali making field recordings of traditional musicians...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Rey de Mi Folclor Vallenato y Cumbia Colombiana
Ever since Carlos Vives turned to the style in the early 90s, vallenato reinstated itself as one of Colombia's most-cherished...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020
Rise Aurora
This debut album from the Sussex folk singer Rosie Hodgson is the culmination of much time on the English folk...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2017
Yaral Sa Doom
In 2018 Karl Jonas Winqvist, self-styled ‘musical archaeologist’ and founding member of the Swedish band First Floor Power, travelled to...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2021
The Unfinished Violin
Sam Sweeney's Fiddle: Made in the Great War show toured from 2014 to last year, and he has chosen that...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2018
Zapateo Suite
Since settling in Paris in 1997, this Cuban expatriate has played with the likes of Gilles Peterson and Havana Cultura,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2019
