Reviews
Flame Folclòre
Cocanha have done it again. Following their recent team-up with Los Sara Fontán and Tarta Relena on 4132314, the Occitan...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2026
Pegno D’Ammore
Pegno D’Ammore’s first flowering reimagines southern Italian oral traditions with a rock-driven edge. Led by Pino Ruffo’s salt-worn vocals, the...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2026
Gigi de Nissa
Gigi is the nom de plume of one Louis Pastorelli, a fellow traveller of Moussu T – a shared personal...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Metromonk
The Austrian-born percussionist and composer Manu Delago has become the foremost proponent of the instrument known as the hang, having...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2017
Both Sides of the Aegean
Hüsnü Senlendirici & Trio Chios
Hüsnü Şenlendirici is Turkey's big clarinet star, famed for his glitzy virtuoso style and, unfortunately, a tendency for saccharine arrangements...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Flying into Mystery
Bowed but definitely not beaten by pandemic isolation, Moore responds with one of his finest offerings in years. Flying into...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022
Mazes
On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...
Reviewed by Charlie Long in issue: April/2020
The Lucky Ones
Hailing from the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada, The Lucky Ones took their name from Alistair MacLeod's...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
A Toda Cuba le Gusta
This welcome, remastered reissue of a classic World Circuit album should help to adjust an imbalance created by the phenomenon...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Artifacts
“Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke walk into a bar…” No, it's not a joke but one way of...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2017
