Reviews
Assaf
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
The Reeling
The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
Funmi Ti De
Funmi Olawumi has spent the last dozen years singing with various Nigerian ensembles including wedding party favourites the Queens of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
American Folk Fantasies Vol 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade
Dick Connette doesn't see music in terms of white and black, urban or rural, folk or funk, blues or country....
Reviewed by Gerald Seligman in issue: October/2017
School of life
All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010
Aligned
Itzhak Ventura is a ney specialist, mastering the Persian, Arabic and Turkish variants of this end-blown reed flute. He also...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2022
Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010
The Gift Band | Various Artists
There's not been, to my knowledge, a live album from Norma Waterson. So give a warm hand, please, for this...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
Don’t You Want To Go?
A superbly talented fiddle player from Kansas City, Missouri, and member of the acoustic bluegrass band The Wilders, Betse Ellis...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Narrow Line
You’d be hard pressed to pinpoint the origins of Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke. Their album Narrow Line more than...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: July/2022
