Reviews
Stories Still Untold
Ewan McLennan continues his evolution into a major figure on the Scottish folk scene with his third album. Stories Still...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985
It's indicative of how the music of East Africa has been overshadowed by its West African cousin that none of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2022
Hundinuiaõis/Bulrush Bloom
From Estonia, Eva Väljaots plays the kannel, one of the plucked zither-like instruments shared by the Finno-Ugric cultures around the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2022
Backroad Carnival
Cory Seznec first made waves as part of the quirky American roots group Groanbox Boys and has since cropped up...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2017
This is Tehran?
Getting their music heard outside of Iran can be tricky for artists working in the oppressive environment enforced by the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2021
Alma de Cantaora
There's a fine line between busting envelopes and not knowing where you're going. At times Spanish singer-songwriter Amparo Sánchez seems...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2013
Kraj za Miastem
You wouldn’t guess it from the name, but WoWaKin are a trio of Polish musicians playing music mostly from the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
Detached
For lovers of boundary-pushing music, a flute and a diatonic accordion may not seem an immediately thrilling prospect. Here, however,...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2020
