Reviews
Lio Canta Caymmi
Lisbon-born French singer Lio became a pop icon in France and Belgium following her hit single ‘Le Banana Split’ in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2018
Imagined Frequencies
Armenian-born Vahagn Turgutyan (aka Vahagni) was introduced to flamenco via his guitarist father, who became obsessed with the Spanish music...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2015
Love Hurts
Finnish folk quartet ENKEL return with their third studio album, a mix of traditional and contemporary numbers. All four women...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2022
Serenin: From the Black Sea to the Ligurian Sea
Despite appearances this is not a generic fusion but a bridge between specific traditions soundly based on historical and environmental...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: April/2021
Rolling Back
Hungarian Gypsy band Parno Graszt hail from the village of Paszab in the north-east of the country. Led by tambura...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
Tropikadelic
Ireke (meaning ‘Sugar Cane’ in Yoruba) are a French duo with musical bona fides and a range of friends to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023
Ordinary Giants: A Life & Times 1918-2018
Robb Johnson is a remarkable singer-songwriter who won acclaim with 1997's Gentle Men, an album that used his grandfathers' lives...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2018
Sycophantic Friends
Attentive listeners may have first heard Atamina on the 2016 compilation This is Kologo Power!, on which he appeared alongside...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
Local Stranger
Classically trained Alkinoos Ioannidis has been recording and performing world-wide since 1993. One of the younger generation of guitar-playing Greek...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: July/2012
Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from the Acoustic Planet Vol 3
When American banjo player Bela Fleck decided to investigate his instrument's origins in Africa, he set in motion a film...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
