Reviews
With the Dawn
Bella Hardy's new album begins with the track ‘The Only Thing to Do’, a striking and beautiful ballad addressing love...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
Sheear
Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015
Metisse Maloya
The island of La Réunion is a French territory located in the Indian Ocean, lying to the east of Madagascar,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2015
Jelszó
Félix Lajkó & Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Lajkó is one of Europe's most talented and most adventurous violinists. Hungarian-speaking, but Serbian-born, he transcends musical borders, ranging from...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2015
Os Brazões
This is a welcome reissue that deserves to sit alongside tropicália classics by the likes of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2015
Devil in the Seat
The American, Portland, Oregon-based group The Foghorn Stringband are the epitome of what it means to be an old-time group...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2015
In a Cosmic Ear
Up until their dissolution in the mid-1990s, Calabria's Re Niliu had been diving deep into traditional Italian peasant music, growing...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2015
Éperdument… Chants d’Amour Persans
Trained to recite the Qur’an as he was being brought up, Alireza Ghorbani developed his vocal abilities at a young...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2015
La Yave de mi Kaza
The album's title means ‘The Key to my Home’ in the Ladino language of the Jews that were expelled from...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2015
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2015
