Reviews
Babel Fish
The Dutch band Amariszi have been playing Balkan-inspired pop music for the past decade and Babel Fish is their third...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail
With a banjo, guitar, quietly affecting alto voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of American folk songs, Stephen Wade creates a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2017
Javas
London now comes just after Bordeaux in terms of numbers of its urban French population, so it's perhaps no great...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017
Distant Havens
This inventive British folk trio bring together influences from across Britain and Ireland – five songs here are sung in...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2017
Entity
This album is from Belgium, a nation seemingly adept at encouraging musical collaborations between different communities – Voxtra's The Encounter...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree
Betsayda Machado & Parranda El Clavo
It's hard to think of any field recording – this was captured under a mango tree, as the title suggests...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017
Initiatrix
Heloise Pilkington's Halloween-released Initiatrix is an original and thoughtfully constructed piece of work. A collection of original songs and chants...
Reviewed by Jahnavi Harrison in issue: December/2017
Entreverados
Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017
Will You?
Shujaat Husain Khan, Kevin Hays, Katayoun Goudarzi, Tim Ries & Dibyarka Chatterjee
Perhaps there is something about the texts of the great Persian-language poet Rumi that chime with the times we are...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2017
The Rough Guide to Holy Blues
Featuring 25 tracks of vintage acoustic blues – almost all of them dating from the 1920s and 30s – this...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2017
