Reviews
All Life is Here
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Ma Nature
Singer and environmental campaigner Olga del Madagascar hails from, as you would expect, Madagascar. The East African island is festooned...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2016
Assaf
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
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
Jayme Stone's Folklife
An extension of his 2015 Lomax Project, the renowned Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone now presents us with Jayme Stone's Folklife,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2017
The Rough Guide to African Roots Revival
One of the keys to success in the competitive compilation market is to find fresh and interesting thematic approaches that...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
Obiaa!
Pat Tomas & Kwashibu Area Band
This is the second release from veteran Ghanaian highlife singer Pat Tomas in his latest incarnation as leader of the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2019
Motel Llamado Mentira
With a background in burlesque and theatre, the Spanish singer known as Vinila von Bismark uses music as a very...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
Live
This CD and DVD package is quite brilliant, although not altogether new. I remember, when the DVD of the 2004...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
