Reviews
Igrali se Konji Vrani: Black Horses Romped
The Serbian group of female singers led by Svetlana Spajić is probably the best known and undoubtedly the most prolific...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2020
Indian Classical Interactions
This album celebrates the work of British-based Indian musician Baluji Shrivastav and features four separate original works combining the melody...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/2021
Neighbourhood
Floating Sofa Quartet are a pan-Scandinavian instrumental group hailing from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. In this second album, they've focused...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: March/2019
Selo Na Okuke / Village Tracks
The band name (pronounced Kree-ess) means ‘Bonfire’ in old Croatian dialect, but Kries certainly aren't incinerating the old folk songbooks....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Streams
The Paris-based guitarist Nguyên Lê is known for his distinctive style of world jazz. His previous albums combine jazz improvisation...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019
Wriggle and Writhe
Having recently won both the Best Duo and Best Musician awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, expectations are...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012
Reckless Saints
There's something retro and regional about Kim Mayfield's fluffy girlish vocals that pleasantly invokes the late and legendary Tammy Wynette,...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2019
Festival Jump-Up
Now, the first CD here is something of a revelation, containing as it does the first ever reissue of Lord...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2020
Sanctuary
Sanctuary opens with ‘When Will We Find?’, a song that asks desperate and universal questions: when will we find love,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2016
Greater Jamaica
Producer Duke Reid's compilation advertises ‘Reggay at its best’ – that's reggae circa 1969, as connoisseurs will note from the...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
