Reviews
Fiery Gizzard
North Carolinian Joseph Decosimo has spent his career studying, teaching and playing traditional music of Appalachia and the American South....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: September/2025
Só Ouço
What was originally supposed to be a semester of student exchange in Rio de Janeiro, turned into a year and...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
Dom Salvador JID024
Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed
After collaborating with Brazilian notables like Marcos Valle, João Donato and Azymuth, the workaholic studio partners, Younge & Muhammed, have...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025
Horizon
From Chicago comes a pleasantly languid set from a group of excellent musicians influenced by 60s and 70s Brazilian music...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Koren
Born out of encounters between field songs, grand opera and Latin music in a New Orleans port (among other things),...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2025
Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest
Darol Anger may not have invented the bluegrass fiddle ‘chop’ (he learned it from originator Richard Green, who created it...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: September/2025
Stop Over
Zimbabwean mbira player and singer Nasibo Mutize met French guitarist-pianist Raphaël Joly (aka Zigwiton) in the latter's adopted home of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2025
Two Strings
Jake Shulman-Ment & Abigale Reisman
It's uncommon to have two violins in a klezmer band; more frequently, one violin vies with clarinet and other solo...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: September/2025
Masters of Our Roots
A masterclass of 20th century Cuban-American showbiz, this has all the vintage allure of a night at Havana's Tropicana, or...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: September/2025
When Will They Ever Learn? – A Story Of US Folk Music 1963–1969
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Cinema has in recent years given the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s a legendary – perhaps even mythical...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
