Reviews

Biyedi

Kerfala Kanté

With a griot ancestry and over 30 years of records to his name, Kerfala Kanté deserves his high regard in...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Atlas

Tune In

French production duo (and brothers) Harry and Xavier Veynand have chosen an appropriate title for their first album: it feels...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2021

African Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

A dozen years ago the Putumayo label issued one of the first compilations to explore the rich connections between African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Tincian

9Bach

Singer Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland delivered a superb debut album of traditional Welsh folk songs in 2009, fusing...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Forgotten Kingdom

Jim Causley

It's been more than a decade since Causley's debut album and his career has encompassed vocal trio The Devil's Interval,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2016

Topspin

Cardboard Fox

Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018

World of Pixinguinha

Hamilton de Holanda Quintet

Hamilton de Holanda is a fantastically accomplished musician. As a player of the bandolin (15-stringed lute) there are probably none...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2015

Anomaly

Jasdeep Singh Degun

This is the first solo release from the British sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun. It features a large cast...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2022

Rooftop Sessions

Dreamers' Circus

The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Concert Program

Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes

The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011