Reviews
Simido
Siltane, the explosive debut solo album by the singer Moonlight Benjamin, was a Top of the World in #141 and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2020
Golden Loam
Using fingerstyle electric guitar and lap steel, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist Premo plumbs layers of harmonic ambience, granular textural effects and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022
Gipsy Manifesto
Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar
Balkan brass bands still wallop their bass drums with the same switches used by Ottoman marching bands, the kind Haydn...
Reviewed by Joe Walker in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Pastourelle
Cecilia is a neat little trio of fine Belgian musicians from the bal folk, or Boombal, scene, which is a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Ceilidh
Ceilidh, the third album from the self¬proclaimed enfants terribles of the English folk-dance scene, is a curious beast. Opening with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Lila
Gnawa in Manhattan? Grammy–nominated Innov Gnawa are just that, four Gnawi led by Fes-born maalem Hassan Ben Jaafer, with Samir...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2021
Anoura
In 2018 the Malian guitarist Anansy Cissé and his band were travelling to a festival in his hometown of Diré...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
Mezo: Field
Serbian Hungarian Félix Lajkô is one of Europe’s most remarkable violin players – a true virtuoso, but a quixotic and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2014
Diwan of Beauty and Odd
Singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef is one of music's unrelenting explorers. From his roots in Tunisia he has travelled...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: December/2016
Gypsy Killer
This strangely named disc draws on the repertoire of the great Romanian singer Maria Tanase (1913-1963), who is held in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011
