Reviews
New Luk Tung
This album is the latest Thai release from Japan's EM Records and marks a departure from previous reissues of Thai...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2019
Balabeatz
It’s the fourth album in almost ten years for this band created in Toulouse when balafon virtuoso Seydou Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: July/2025
Kapaim
Multi-instrumentalist Uri Brauner Kinrot has been leading his Ouzo Bazooka outfit for over a decade now, helping pioneer a blend...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: September/2025
There Is Beauty, There Already
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
Sound the People
Brooklyn-based Red Baraat are an international, bhangra-infused version of the brass bands that accompany Indian weddings and festivals. Their latest...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018
A Wanderer I’ll Stay
Sweet, sincere harmony singing and a deft, relaxed approach to old-time, traditional and contemporary folk music are what characterise this...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2015
On the Lonesome Plain
As the son of world-renowned Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree for this...
Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: October/2018
Teeth of Time
Belfast-based singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside’s latest album ranges from the atmospheric opener ‘Teeth of Time: Mountain’ – its first half a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2025
1783
With his latest album, 1783, the Nova Scotian hip-hop/R&B artist Lance Sampson (Aquakultre), continues his exploration and explication of a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2026
The Voice of the People: The Barley Mow
Topic Records released the Voice of the People series – 20 CDs and about 500 recordings of traditional songs and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
