Reviews
Bad Old Songs
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird
American-born, Berlin-based Daniel Kahn is one of the most interesting arrivals on the klezmer scene in the last few years....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Midnight and Closedown
After a wait of nearly four years the British folk scene's bravest experimenters are back with their fifth studio album,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2019
Leyenda
Paying tribute variously to Mother Earth, to a Chinese goddess of flight and to the wicked sirens of Andalusian waterfalls,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Gracious Wings
Since her eponymous debut, released in 2006, through the stellar likes of Hyperboreans, Saturnine and Lullabies, Jackie Oates has proved...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Argai
The achievements of Ale Möller, and the importance of what he’s done for traditional music should not be understated. He...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Something to Someone
Run Boy Run is an Americana group from Tucson, Arizona, whose profile was immeasurably enhanced by appearances at the 2009...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015
Knucklehead Circus
Marking their 14th record and in their 29th year, Old Blind Dogs kickstart their anniversary celebrations with a blisteringly seductive...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/February/2022
Grande Liquidação
The Mr Bongo label deserves some kudos for re-releasing this, the hard-to-find 1968 debut album from everyone's favourite world music...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
