Reviews
Ketan
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017
Flash of the Spirit
Jon Hassell is a contemporary classical minimalist musician who forged a deep engagement with music from India and West Africa....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
Field and Dyke
I grew up in Herefordshire, a place that, like South Holland in Lincolnshire, missed the post-war migrants who came to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Kel Tinariwen
You know Tinariwen. Hypnotic Touareg assouf music from bluesy electric guitars, slithering out of Saharan sand-encrusted amps and accompanied by...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2023
Salsa Vintage
Based in the Netherlands since 1992, Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Rosales has played with such big-hitters as Oscar D’León, Jimmy Bosch,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017
YTILAER
Bill Callahan's Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest saw his writing point its focus inwards and take on the enormity of...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2022
Straum, Stille
Recorded by the Norwegian mini¬malist chamber-folk trio in Oslo’s Sofien¬berg Church, you can pretty much get the hang of Straum,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Mysterious Duality – Just Me
Jayanthi Kumaresh is one of India’s leading performers of the veena, an ancient lute which produces a rich and deeply...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011
