Reviews
Hoje é Assim, Amanhã Não Sei
This album consolidates Ricardo Ribeiro's position as the finest male fado singer of his generation. Born in the early 80s,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Ástor 2020, La Historia Continúa
This year marks 100 years since Astor Piazzolla’s birth in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This album is a timely homage...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
George Sansome
One third of BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award nominees Granny's Attic, Sansome releases his solo debut. This self-titled album...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
War Stories
Lancashire-based Harp and a Monkey call themselves ‘electro-folk-storytellers’ and their songs resonate with a strong sense of history coupled with...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Jindo Island: Funeral and Shamanic Chants
Having featured several other Korean (both North and South) traditional genres in its long-running collection of field recordings, this time...
Reviewed by Anna Yates-Lu in issue: May/2019
Soaring Wild Lands
Dawda’s father Amadu Bansang Jobarteh was in effect the official kora player to Gambia’s first president, and he named his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2
Born in Romania, but now based in Scotland, Lizabett Russo is a singer-songwriter influenced by Western and Romanian traditional styles,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2022
Faerie Fire Dances
Marc Block has been on the folk scene since the mid-1980s, a self-described ‘rootsy Radical Faerie singer of original and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
Atlântico
Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
