Reviews

Rough Guide to Bluegrass

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Call me a sucker for heart-wrenching songs about hard-living folks, but this compilation of 18 tracks assembled by journalist Dan...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012

Casa Guilhermina

Ana Moura

Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Music From Bavaria

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Whatever prejudices you might have about Bavarian folk music – you know, those Oktoberfest, beer-fuelled, lederhosen-clad, thigh-slapping, oom-pah brass-band stereotypes...

Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: March/2010

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Kidal

Tamikrest

There seems to be a kind of musical arms race going on among the numerous Touareg rock’n’roll bands who have...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017

The Rough Guide to Samba

VARIOUS ARTISTS

In this latest incarnation of The Rough Guide to Samba, compiler John Armstrong works from a generous definition of Brazil's...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013

Talé

Salif Keita

Baaba Maal did it with 2009's Television. Amadou & Mariam followed last year with Folila. Now Salif Keita has joined...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013

Deltu

Pevarlamm

Deltu (Dynamism) is Breton world music, taking its influences from Brittany to Ireland, from Scotland to Galicia, from ceilidh to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: June/2016

Excavated Shellac: Voices

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

The globe is completely open for this deep excavation, the latest in Dust-to-Digital’s Jonathan Ward-assembled series. From Mongolia to Morocco,...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2026

Mazaher

Mazaher

Zar is a ceremony found in various forms across north-east Africa and beyond that involves communicating with and pacifying spirits...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020