Reviews
Morning in a New Machine
What does it take to work wonders with small things? Try taking a reverential approach to American folk music, taking...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2016
Behind the Glass
Followers of British folk may know The Fair Rain as The Old Dance School. The septet led by singer-songwriter Robin...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2016
In Tune with the Wolves
Finnish singer Riikka Timonen has a stunningly beautiful voice, and that is the strength of In Tune with the Wolves....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2016
Walk the Walk
Martin Nathan (aka Brain Damage) is a French dub producer who takes his dub tracks into the further sonic reaches...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2016
Dansing
Tęgie Chłopy are a new band that's gathered around veteran saxophone and clarinet player Stanisław Witkowski. Born in 1934, Witkowski...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
Call of the Blues
After meeting at a festival in Mumbai in 2013, the British guitarist Michael Messer and Manish Pingle, who plays the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
The Butterfly Dream
Little has been heard of the Chinese electro-fusionist since her 2010 album Harmony – which followed a BBC Radio 3...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: May/2016
Of What We Spoke
Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2016
Why the Mountains are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960
In early 1980s Epirus (Greece), I learned of a University of Washington musicologist engaged in fieldwork for a PhD on...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: May/2016
