Reviews
Fintou
Recorded with analog equipment in the OTODI studio in Lomé, Vaudou Game’s fifth album takes Togolese sounds to new and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2025
Dusty Road
Klezmer might provide the heart of this quartet’s repertoire, but they also welcome added inputs, including tango, Gypsy jazz and...
Reviewed by Marain Longley in issue: October/2020
Build Something Better
Grace Petrie is a Leicester-born singer-songwriter and musical activist who sounds better, and angrier, with every new album. She started...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Build Music
This modern street music from Sierra Leone is based on a form of ceremonial Islamic masquerade procession music known as...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2017
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
Let's get it out of the way: this is a straightforward, mainstream country album. It's not old-time, it's not bluegrass...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2017
Devils and Wonders in Bali
At several points, this disc of Balinese gamelan recordings made in 1974 had me punching the air in excitement. There’s...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2011
Mediterranean Songs
Melos is an ambitious gathering of the musical traditions of three Mediterranean countries – Spain, Tunisia and Greece. The album’s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012
At Our Next Meeting
The Furrow Collective is a four-piece comprising some of the leading young lights in English and Scottish folk and traditional...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2014
The Alchemy
Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018
