Reviews
Anna & Elizabeth
Like a long-lost Coen Brothers soundtrack, this album opens to the old-time sounds of the Southern cotton fields. Drenched in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2015
Treacle & Bread
On the sleeve of this marvellous album there’s a picture of Rod Stradling playing his melodeon and beaming. He’s smiling...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2022
Jiuta & Kotouta
Ensemble Yonin No Kaï were formed in 1957, when each of the four members was awarded a gold medal at...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2019
South India: Flowers and Ashes Hymns to Shiva
This is a disc of South Indian (Karnatic) singing in the temples of Tamil Nadu, the large state at the...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2010
Songs Inspired by the Film The Beatles and India
Here are two discs to accompany the new documentary film on the highly influential period when The Beatles visited India...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2021
Postcards and Pocketbooks: The Best of Bella Hardy
With a career stretching back to her early teens as a member of The Pack, a 12-piece that graced the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Socalled Sings Di Frosh and Other Yiddish Songs
Socalled with the Kaiser Quartett
Josh Dolgin, better known as Socalled, is a rap producer who shunned the traditional treasure troves of American funk and...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: December/2018
Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris
The impressive scholarship and production nous of the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label is here applied to a multimedia collection of the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2018
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger
Three years ago Kronos Quartet released an album titled Folk Songs, a journey into Appalachian tradition featuring guest singers Sam...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
A Casual Invocation
George Hoyle, aka Cunning Folk, is a folklorist, storyteller, folk artist, magical ritualist, a former member of Gay Dad, Circulus,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
