Reviews
The Wilders
Bluegrass, country, rock‘n’roll, honky-tonk, spit‘n'sawdust story-telling: call it what you like, this four-piece band from Kansas City, Missouri, do it...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Line-Up
Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Funky Africa
Compared to, say, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, Almon Memela is not a name much celebrated in the pantheon of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
Ankomst
A prize–winning folk fiddler, Gjermund Larsen is a top–notch musician and can clearly do whatever he wants to on the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Vertical Land
This album has a clear aim: to aurally conjure that feeling all thoughtful travellers experience, the sense of wonder at...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2015
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Light Ida Lum
In the grand tradition of the currently inactive Fiddler's Bid, whose Maurice Henderson features in this group's three-fiddle frontline, Haltadans...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
Louisiana Saturday Night Revisited
This virtual tour of the dance halls, festivals, and saloons of south-western Louisiana follows Ace’s similar recorded visit to the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2014
I Bow to you Waheguru
Australian-born Sikh singer Manika Kaur returns with a second album, giving us a less conventional presentation of shabadkirtan (Sikh devotional...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2015
Monastir
There is quite some story and a lot of work behind this album. American-born Sarah Aroeste comes from a Sephardic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021
