Reviews
Roudennoù / Traces
Renowned as one of the most charismatic traditional singers of Brittany, the late Yann-Fañch Kemener released a double album embracing...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2019
La Llorona
While she could play the tragic heroine with a bleeding heart with the best of them, Chavela Vargas was also...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018
Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana
Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
The ringing guitar and tres duets between Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo, first heard on 1986's Chanchaneando, went on to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
Udondolo
It is unsurprising that black South African music in recent years has lacked the game-changing potency it enjoyed when soundtracking...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Between 1972 and 1997, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra cut a unique and much¬loved swathe through that musical realm where folk,...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: October/2010
Charlie Gillett's Radio Picks: Honky Tonk Vol 2
Long before Charlie Gillett became a world music DJ (and guru) he was something of a seer for what's now...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015
A Tribute to Lead Belly
The songs of Lead Belly were first popularised in Britain during the skiffle era of the mid-50s, when Lonnie Donegan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
Three Bells
Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge & Rob Ickes
Take three of the greatest dobro players on the planet, toss them together in a studio with a playlist that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
The Sea is My Brother
The fourth studio album from Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas is a concept album about the sea....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
