Reviews
Soon In Your Village
The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra has unleashed this year’s primary global fusion spinner, with all disparate elements intact, shaven down to...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025
Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles
There ought to be nothing surprising about an all-female mariachi band, but this particular branch of Mexican music has such...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
The Rough Guide to the Best African Music You've Never Heard
In The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard, a book published in 2009, this author explored some...
Reviewed by Nigel Willamson in issue: Apr/May/2014
Northbound
There is a lot to like about this debut album from Newcastle-based four-piece Assembly Lane. Comprising mandolin player Tom Kimber,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017
Thempest in a Theapot
I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2020
Karsilama
From a Turkish word meaning ‘meeting’ or ‘welcome’ comes the title of this resolutely acoustic album. The trio, based on...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2019
Acid Folk
Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2011
Of What We Spoke
Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2016
About Land
Mira Pardelha's story starts in 1998 when Canadian musicians Jason Breckenridge and Ian Brimacombe were flatmates in Lisbon and first...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2020
