Reviews
Adoon Winding Nith
There's a distinctly spring-like zest and freshness about this new collection of Robert Burns songs, derived in part from the...
Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: June/2010
Blackletter Garland
The Hack-Poets Guild are Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and composer and sound designer Nathaniel Mann. Working with Sound UK Arts,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023
À Flor da Pele
It was inevitable that fado, like any other musical genre, would find a new audience (even in its home country)...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2010
Folk Awards 2012
Proper Records have been putting out these compilations, based on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominations, since 2005 and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
Roots of Life
Here's some Malian-inspired musical innovation from an unlikely source: maverick dance music producers Los Chicharrons, also known as the odd...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
Kelena Fôly
Grand pianos are not heard much in West African music, but Cheick Tidiane Seck has been playing for more than...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2023
Erguvan
This album consists mostly of folk repertoire from the Aegean region of Turkey, collected in the field by musicologist Ali...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
I Speak Luganda
The endongo is an eight-stringed lyre from the area around the Great Lakes in East Africa. Joel Sebunjo has performed...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Thulth
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh plays a unique role in the Arabic music world. Based in Cairo, he is a Palestinian multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2016
Tarkabarka
Balamuc are a London-based band with a global membership and a clear interest in the music of the Roma, especially...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2023
