Reviews
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
As the world's premier banjo player, Fleck has ranged across jazz, classical and world music, dramatically expanding the instrument's repertoire...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Viva Africando
I don’t know if anybody makes serious money out of the Africando operation, but apart from its musical excellence, the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Félix Lajkó & Vołosi
The opening of this album sounds like you've stumbled into an astonishing cadenza in the middle of a violin concerto....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2019
Holy Colony: Burning Acres
New Zealand Māori singer Troy Kingi has an ambitious idea of recording ten albums over ten years in ten different...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Coxsone's Music 2: The Sound of Young Jamaica
This fabulous double CD (or triple-vinyl) set gathers 41 recordings from the dawn of the ska era: 1960-62. All the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
Territoires
Québécois supergroup Le Vent du Nord return with their tenth album having recently become a quintet with the addition of...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2019
An Sionnach Dubh
Dàibhidh Stiùbhard's remarkably assured debut, An Sionnach Dubh (The Black Fox), showcases one of the most individual of voices to...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2020
Maslak Halay1
The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia
Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2011
Declaration
Favourites on the Australian folk circuit, it's been eight years since Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton's last recording, Summer's Lonesome...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
