Reviews
¿Que Vola?
¿Que Vola? (‘What's Up?’ – a greeting commonly used by Cubans) opens traditionally with a grand salutation to the Santería...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2019
Ameriikan Laulu
Aallotar are a transatlantic ‘chamber folk’ duo, comprising Finnish accordionist Teija Niku and Finnish-American fiddler Sara Pajunen. In the early...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2019
Teranga
Hervé Samb is a self-taught guitarist and composer from Senegal whose way with harmony and technique has won him considerable...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Take a Knife and Open My Heart
We've not returned to the golden age of vinyl, but we have entered the age of the collectible object of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
You Will Never Die!
Clarinettist Yom's second project with his band The Wonder Rabbis comes seven years after the first one. In between, he's...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Hide and Hair
Originally from North Wales and Yorkshire, The Trials of Cato are a trio who got together while they were living...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Otodi
The cover of this album goes a great way to describing the audio treasure that lies inside. A mask representing...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Mountscribe
Piggott was the musical engine behind a number of folk releases over the past year or so – from Sussex...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Global Griot
Eric Bibb knows what he's doing by now. He's released about 40 albums, give or take, and netted a bunch...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Mercury
Mercury marks Miller's third solo album, but it is her first of entirely original material. And a talented songwriter it...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
