Reviews
Bali 1928, Vol II: Tembang Kuna – Songs from an Earlier Time
The second of five planned discs collecting 78s of traditional Balinese music, this album's music may be 87 years old,...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: November/2015
Maidin Domhnaigh
Seamas Hyland left those rapscallions, The Mary Wallopers, last year. His first solo album, Maidin Domhnaigh (Sunday Morning) reveals his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/2024
Songs of the Rising Sun
WSPAK is Polish duo Adrianna (Ada) Kafel-Woźniak and Aleksandra (Ola) Pura-Cidyło from Białystok in the north-east of the country. They...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: February/March/2025
Kananayé
Kanazoe, Clotilde Rullaud, Abdoulaye Traore, Boubacar Djiga & Achille Nacoulma
This album has its origins in a project commissioned for a 2019 festival in Burkina Faso in which French singer...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: February/March/2025
Star Above the Mountain
Celtic folk duo and married couple Josh and Julie Kinn serve up a handsome listen on Star Above the Mountain....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: August/2025
Mareld
There are bears and boats here, gusts of wind, a drooping cigarette, though you don’t really need to know the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/2026
Howl For More
Evolving from the introspective folk of his debut Quiet Rooms to a more ambitious, delicately electrified musical palette, Howl For...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2025
The Straits
This compilation soundtrack for a new Australian television crime series set in the area between the tropical Queensland town of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012
The Irish Sea Sessions 2010
The inaugural Irish Sea Sessions, of which this is an electrifying live recording from last year’s Liverpool Irish Festival, brought...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
