Reviews
Vildaluodda/Wildprint
Hildá Länsman, a young vocalist from northern Finland's indigenous Sámi community, fuses traditional joik chant-singing with electronic pop in the...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: July/2019
Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada
In the late 80s Ayub Ogada was one of the great ‘discoveries’ of WOMAD. His 1993 album En Mana Kuoyo...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2015
The Coast Road
Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle
Boston-born fiddler Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe and bouzouki, guitar and piano player Daniel Quayle from the Isle of Man first began playing...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2022
Be Here Whenever
Danielle de Gruttola, Henry Kaiser, Benedicte Maurseth & Stein Urheim
After the plaintively beautiful but solitary sound of Benedicte Maurseth’s self-titled solo album (reviewed in the November 2019 issue, #152),...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Josef Josef
Eric Slabiak, the driving force behind Josef Josef, was for many years part of Les Yeux Noirs alongside his brother...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: March/2020
Melodic Melange
Anders Hagberg & Ahmad Al Khatib
Ahmad Al Khatib's last CD, Sabîl, was one of the most impressive solo oud recordings to have appeared in recent...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Everything Sacred
Fifty years ago the Incredible String Band emerged from the Scottish folk scene to create an extraordinary fusion of folk,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016
CantöRiöndö
The spirit of Genoa resounds through this celebration of the singing circle of trallalero – a form of urban traditional...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Double You
Catrin Finch & Aoife Ní Bhriain
Catrin Finch continues to startle and amaze. Classically trained, and now surely the finest, best-known harpist in Britain, she has...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2023
