Reviews
Manannan's Cloak
Manannan is the Celtic sea god who protects the Isle of Man from invasion by shrouding it in mist. There...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
Mujeres
Diana Baroni, Ronald Martin Alonso & Rafael Guel
Mujeres weaves together classical and Latin styles in a breathtaking tribute to the women of the New World. The album...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2023
Set Sela
In a part of the world where a music scene is starting to make itself heard, Senegal's Guiss Guiss Bou...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
alterum
In her own cool and exquisite way, Julie Fowlis is moving on. She became an international star by singing traditional...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2017
Love Songs Vol 2
In 1986, Yishak Banjaw sat down at home to record an album of traditional Ethiopian music, using a borrowed Casio...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2017
BEA
BEA is one of those rare studio albums that makes the listener feel as if they're actually present at a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Release the Penguins
Flamenco, jazz and Gypsy swing mingle together in the world of the TG Collective, a guitar-led sextet from a British...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2012
American Folk Fantasies Vol 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade
Dick Connette doesn't see music in terms of white and black, urban or rural, folk or funk, blues or country....
Reviewed by Gerald Seligman in issue: October/2017
The Warp and the Weft
I have to confess that Wisaal’s description of themselves as an ‘Arabic-influenced world music ensemble based in Lansing, Michigan’ tripped...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2013
The Burial of Kojo
Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
