Reviews
Black Robert
Since releasing theirsecond album, Brule Lentement [reviewedin #68], which wasinfluenced by TheClash as well as 1920s zydeco squeezebox supremo AmedeArdoin,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2011
Blackbird
The Wellington eight-piece Fat Freddy’s Drop have, over the past decade, built up a remarkable international following with their blend...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Makhorka
Formed in 1998 in France by a trio of buskers from St Petersburg, Russia, Dobranotch originally played Irish music. Perhaps...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
Luna, cera e vino
This is a classy album of Italian electro-folk from a trio that formed back in Caserta, north of Naples, in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond
Forty-year-old Bear Family Records is a German label renowned for digging deeply into the country, blues and rock’n’roll archives, and...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Wake the Union
The latest album from Devon duo Steve Knightleyand Phil Beer exhibits their trademark concern for making folk music speak to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Mansana Blues
British blues guitarist Ramon Goose and Senegalese kora (harp-lute) player Diabel Cissokho have teamed up here on a kora-blues album...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2010
A Thousand Butterflies
A Thousand Butterflies resembles a sonic personal essay, narrating both the musical adventures of the composer through her life. Aftab...
Reviewed by Kamyar Salavati in issue: November/2022
Babilonia
There's an agreeable rock influence coming to the fore on this Italian band's latest album. But those distorted guitar chords...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: April/2016
