Reviews

Bergå Folk Project

Bergå Folk Project

Sometimes, even the best folk bands can make an album that feels a bit like another re-hash of the tried...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Open the Road

We Banjo 3

Celtgrass pioneers We Banjo 3’s love affair with Americana has seen the Galway-based foursome build a formidable Stateside profile in...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Connection

The Maghreban

The Maghreban, aka Ayman Rostom, is a Guildford native with Egyptian and Saudi roots. This is the second album from...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

PUNKU

PUNKU

In the last 12(ish) years Latin American folktronica has moved on from DJs syncing their beats to a cumbia rhythm,...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

The Real Revolution

Playing for Change Band

It’s 20 years since the American filmmakers Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke founded Playing for Change, hitting the streets with...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Jinn

Jinn

While it would be easy to make an album focusing on the similarities between guitar and oud, this debut album...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Bondona

Khiyo

On the strength of their 2015 debut album Khiyo were nominees in the best group category at the Songlines Music...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors

Meïkhâneh

Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Live at WOMAD 1982

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Can it really be 40 years since the first WOMAD took place at the Royal Bath and West Showground in...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Kudu Bisa Kudu

Balungan

The French drummer Guigou Chenevier was a founder member of the prog-punk-jazz pioneers Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973. Here he...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022