Reviews
Qanat
Misagh Joolaee & Sebastian Flaig
A collaboration between Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Misagh Joolaee and German percussionist Sebastian Flaig, this album explores new instrumental...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022
Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat
Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane
The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Till April is Dead: A Garland of May
In these garlands for May, Lisa Knapp sounds ardent and pure, driven by purpose and conviction. You can tell these...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2017
Far Better Days
Comprising Steve Byrne, Mark Dunlop, Fiona Hunter and Mike Vass, Malinky have, over the last 15 years, confidently established themselves...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2015
Almost Home
The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
The newest instalment of Smithsonian Folkways’ splendid vault-raiding Classic series compiles 25 songs written between 1836 and 1947 about topical...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
