Reviews
Cloud Wandering
One of the foremost performers of Okinawan folk music, vocalist and sanshin (banjo-like lute) player Takashi Hirayasu came to prominence...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019
Al Hadaoui
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah
Al Hadaoui was the group Attarazat Addahabia's debut album, recorded in 1972 but for some reason never released. And now...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2019
The Lines We Draw Together
The Sheffield fiddler, banjoist and songwriter taps into the rich new vein of folk music with theatre, historical memoir, poetry...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2019
Acamar
This is a relaxed, drifting set of Arabic-European instrumental compositions and improvisations from a band based in the Netherlands. The...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2019
Sissala Goddess
The music formerly known as ‘world’ is in need of new stars, and in Wiyaala it may have found one....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2019
Kalba
Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon
Recorded in a church in north Ghana, this charity-driven collaboration between Ghanaian xylophonist Isaac Birituro and British producer and singer-songwriter...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: October/2019
30 Years Live!
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
If Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys are a new band to you, then you probably haven't listened to much,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2019
