Reviews
Cut it Down, Count the Rings
Copper Viper's PR describes them as ‘an acoustic folk group from London,’ which isn't wrong but you could certainly be...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019
The Vienna Tapes
In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020
Smaa Smaa
Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2010
Aou Amwin
A life dedicated to maloya music and an approach that has allowed a music to evolve within the traditional acoustic...
Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
The Hare's Corner
Released in his native Ireland in 2008, Cúinne An Ghiorria (The Hare's Corner) is the solo debut by Kíla co-founder...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2011
Meuseucca Servadze
From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023
When Our Grandfathers Said No
Hailing from north¬east England, the trademark of this vocal trio is lusty close harmony singing, through which they tell nostalgic...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Sekar Mayang
Indonesian singer-songwriter Soedjarwoto Soemarsono, known as Gombloh, was an important counter-culture figure of the 1970s and 1980s in his home...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2023
Steer by the Stars
As one of the strongest live acts on the trad scene for the last couple of decades, and following the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Entreverados
Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017
