Reviews
El Errante
On their latest album, Montréal’s El Balcón have delivered a dynamite collection of self-written songs seamlessly blending lead singer Valeria’s...
Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: June/2025
Encyclopedia Mandolinnica
Mandolinist Ethan Setiawan’s latest album, Encyclopedia Mandolinnica, showcases the Indiana-born, Berklee School of Music graduate’s virtuosic skills in a series...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
Blood Sucking Maniacs
In 1965, a young man from Wichita, Kansas, named Terry Allen performed ‘Red Bird’, the first song he ever wrote,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
We are Connected
Traditional Western rock, blues and jazz seamlessly meet the music of the Maghreb in Jan Wouter Oostenrijk's latest and fourth...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: August/2017
Jola: Hidden Gnawa Music in Brussels
A label, venue, and performing arts foundation, Muziekpublique's latest release focuses on Brussels’ population of Gnawa musicians, which numbers some...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Putan de Cançon
The latest album by the neo-troubadours of Marseille, or to be more precise, the adjacent port of La Ciotat, opens...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
The Empress
Siblings Shannon, Solon and Jeremiah McDade have been steeped in folk music from childhood, playing in a family band with...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: December/2021
St Germain
The French musician, composer and producer Ludovic Navarre (aka St Germain) burst onto the scene 20 years ago with Boulevard,...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2015
Sølvstrøk
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
Sølvstrøk – the title alone drips with poetry and mystery. It translates as ‘Silverstroke,’ but hang on to that Norwegian...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2023
