Reviews
Sky Songs
Alena Murang is a singer and sapé player from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. One of the indigenous...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
El Bardo
Complete with standard-issue retro graphics, here is another senior discovery from Cuba by a gringo record company, in this case...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Another Day, Another Story
There is a purity and precision to James Findlay’s rendering of songs and tunes from the English folk tradition. He...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Front Porch Sessions
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Anyone who has heard the grind and growl of the Indiana three-piece that is The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2017
Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard
Alexander Fedoriouk is a Ukrainian cimbalom player, currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Eastern...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2021
Between Wind and Water
There's always been a natural joyfulness in the sound the String Sisters make together. Right from their first performance at...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018
On Clay Hill
This is a family album. On the face of it, it's a stripped-back, purist collection of traditional English folk songs,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
History of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae
Get ready for a sweltering live album from Jamaican trendsetters the Ska-talites, recorded in Finland in 1994 and capturing, for...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Nine Waves
For their second album on the excellent River Lea label, Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn, aka Ye Vagabonds, are joined...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
Thinking Sideways
Too often, acts from this side of the pond who say they play bluegrass or country actually churn out a...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2019
