Reviews
Lamentations
Papua New Guinea-born singer Ngaiire Joseph (pronounced ‘Ny-rie’) is a little lady with a great big voice. She moved to...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2014
Dark Matter
Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Owerset
Surrounded by the bowed drones of Bridget Marsden's fiddle, Leif Ottosson's accordion and Morten Kvam's double bass, Sarah-Jane Summers' fiddle...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: April/2019
Whip Jamboree
York six-piece Blackbeard’s Tea Party formed in 2009: first as a busking unit, then a ceilidh band and now as...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
Somos
Behind mestizo musics often lie unique stories. In the case of the three Villalobos brothers, it's a tale for our...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2020
Listen to the Banned
You need to hear this record – as much for the quality of the music as for what it represents....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Weirdlore: Notes from the Folk Underground
Weirdlore is a tag conceived by fRoots magazine editor Ian Anderson to describe a disparate collection of artists and bands...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Swaziland: Songs of the Swazi
Despite the 82–year reign of Sobhuza II – the “hip king’’ eulogised by South African jazzer Abdullah Ibrahim – Swaziland...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Maghreb Lyon
The role of Paris and Marseille in the production of North African music in France is well documented: less so...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2014
High Life Time II
For a highlife aficionado, putting on the first disc of this compilation is like being greeted by old friends: Prince...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
