Reviews
Children of Albion
Artist Ben Edge released his absorbing large-format compendium of British folk customs last year, featuring vivid narrative artworks and first-person...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2025
Sweet Rebels – The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï
While Algerian rai has often been open to outside influences, the late 1980s saw a period of rapid modernisation as...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: June/2025
A Fiestar
Andy Gola & Colé Colé Orquesta
With a horn section like Earth Wind & Fire on amphetamines, furious percussion, a wailing guitar and potent vocals, the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2025
Asar
Pakistani singer Muslim Shaggan comes from an impressive lineage of vocal musicians in two ways. Firstly, his grandfather and teacher...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2025
Tagal
This is Norwegian vocal group Kvedarkvintetten‘s third album, a collaboration between the talented quintet and composer/folk musician Jorun Marie Rypdal...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2025
Inner Spaces
Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
The latest release from Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player and vocalist Amir ElSaffar and composer and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch,...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2025
Malmin Med Åshild Vetrhus
With rugged fjords, stony cliffsides and fishing villages, Rogaland in Norway is also home to a remarkably raw-sounding tradition of...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2025
The Edinburgh Rollick
NYC-based Ruckus – described as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” – have joined forces with violinist, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2025
At My Mother’s Piano
Can memory be preserved through sound? Can a place and a point in time be captured in the soft fall...
Reviewed by Rosie Solomon in issue: May/2025
Niepraudzivaya
Hajda Banda are one of the best traditional bands to have emerged in Poland in recent years. Led by Belarusian...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2025
