Reviews
Riptide
This Austin, Texas-based band specialise in a mix of contemporary and progressive jazz with music from the Arab and Turkish...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
As If…
British folk’s most prominent close harmony trio, Coope, Boyes & Simpson are veterans of the excellent Blue Murder (with assorted...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Kizaki Ondo
Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society, Clark Naito
‘Kizaki Ondo’ is an Edo-period folk song that originated in the bustling post town of Nitta Kizakicho, Gunma Prefecture. It...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2019
Live Wires
Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016
Territoire
Among a host of other influences there are strong Balkan flavours on this release from acclaimed Canadian violinist Briga, who...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2021
Teenage Dreams
Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2021
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016
This year sees the 17th BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They grow ever more prestigious and this year, the Royal...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016
At Dawn of Day
At Dawn of Day, the second album from Barluath, a still-fresh, still-developing new addition to the Scots music scene, is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2015
Öptüm
Sezen Aksu is routinely hailed as the ‘Queen of Turkish Pop’. But it's a tag that grossly underplays her talent...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011
Just Leave It All Behind
Music doesn’t have to have words in order to say something. Just Leave It All Behind sees three instrumentalists coming...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024
