Reviews
La Giostra
Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021
Do Not Obey
It's 20 years since Murat Ertel and Levent Akman founded the Istanbul-based psychedelic band Baba Zula. Firmly ensconced in that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016
Y Bardd Anfarwol
In October 2011, Welsh musician Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, journeyed to the Chinese city of Chengdu, spending six...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014
Cumbia Beat Vol 3
Few places in the world were seemingly unaffected by the emergence of electric guitars and the success of The Beatles...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Hireth
A few accordion notes conjure the scene. Noir. Tanya Brittain makes her entrance: a wronged woman, bent on revenge. ‘Don’t...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Songs from Home
There are three Polish women at the heart of Toronto-based band Polky, and Songs from Home refers both to their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
The Fairest Flower of Womankind
A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2017
Buganda Royal Music Revival
The Kingdom of Buganda was founded in the 14th century and is located in the central part of what is...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2022
Timbuktu
During her first spell on World Circuit, Oumou Sangaré made some of the finest albums to come out of West...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
