Reviews

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger

Kronos Quartet

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

Do Primeiro Fado Ao Último Tango

Mísia

‘From the First Fado to the Last Tango’ is a Best Of set celebrating Mísia’s 25 years as a recording...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: May/2017

Chapters of My Life

Moken

This debut recording from the Atlanta-based Cameroonian singer and guitarist reveals a very eccentric persona, Moken's voice creeping from a...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2016

Assolist

Efruze

These sentimental tracks come from the golden, pre-Arabesk, age of Turkish gazinos, venues where mixed crowds would come, eat and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: October/2021

Azerbaijani Gitara

Rüstəm Quliyev

As well as a hot contender for this year’s Most Charmingly Naff Cover Photo award, the inside of this album...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2021

Unearth Repeat

Sam Sweeney

Following on from his Island Records’ debut, The Unfinished Violin, England's premier fiddler releases a small band album with a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020

La Gouache

R.wan

In 2000, Parisian band Java gave traditional bal-musette (French accordion music) a 21st-century makeover, adding the lyrics of Erwan Séguillon...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2021

Zona Zero

Remna

Remna Schwarz dedicates this album to his father José Carlos Schwarz, a legendary figure in Bissau-Guinean culture as a poet,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019

Amser

Fernhill

Fernhill are a musical jackdaw: the band fly far and wide over the historical and cultural landscape of Wales –...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2014

Hawaiki

Taimane

Rising Polynesian uke star Taimane Gardner is a hapa-Samoan (part-Caucasian, part-Samoan) player raised in Hawaii. A musical prodigy, she was...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023