Reviews
Sweet Visitor
She's got a pedigree going back to two superb albums with Eliza Carthy in the early 90s, and with partner...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Voice of the People: The Barley Mow
Topic Records released the Voice of the People series – 20 CDs and about 500 recordings of traditional songs and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Bless Up
The veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped to give birth to reggae, playing on early recordings that defined the genre...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Całe Szczęście
Mosaik are a very accomplished Polish folk band who combine Polish traditions with world sounds. On this album we hear...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Bridge that Links Time
Since their previous record, Chants Polyphoniques d’Albanie, an efficient survey of the remarkably varied unaccompanied songs of the Albanian south,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Addis to Omega
Those familiar with the heavily Ethiopian-influenced band heard on the last three Dub Colossus albums will hardly recognise this new...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Get a Life
Warren G Harding is an odd name to choose for a band name. History regards that particular US president as...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Fair Warning
Kami Thompson and James Walbourne's first release on Island's Pink Label imprint, once home to the likes of Fairport Convention,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
African Gems: Recordings by Charles Duvelle, Jos Gansemans, Benoit Quersin & David Fanshawe
SWP Records never fail to surprise, educate and delight with their releases of traditional African field recordings. Their crowning glory...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
