Reviews
Queen of the Whirl
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution
‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022
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
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
Übersee
The Süddeutsche funkateers are back with a bang. For those listeners who were lucky enough to stumble across last year's...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: March/2010
Cross the Rolling Water
Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Talea
This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017
A World of Hope
This double album brings together tracks donated in support of the charity Postcards for Peace – an international organisation that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017
Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?
Scandinavia in recent years has provided a home for many fine African musicians and the Gambian-born Denmark-based kora player Dawda...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
