Reviews
When I Was A Lad
Serial folk award-nominees Megson, otherwise known as husband and wife duo Stu and Debbie Hanna, took a break from music...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2012
Traces
Traces is Polwart's fifth studio album and her talent for responsive and emotive lyrics combined with sweet melodies is just...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2012
Kel Tamasheq
World music’s love affair with Touareg guitars continues with the fourth album from Terakaft, formed as an off-shoot of Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012
Diaspora
Wilber Calver is a brave man. The idea of using the bagpipes to reflect the African diaspora might strike you...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: October/2012
In the Shadow of the Song
The soft, mellow but plangent tone of the duduk is instantly recognisable and tugs at the heart strings. It has...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Manghoua Foura
The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012
Roll On, Roll On
Tom Paley’s Old-Time Moonshine Revue
Tom Paley is something of a living legend. One of the handful of musicians who kicked off the US folk...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2012
El Rumor de los Tangos
This album gave me an epiphany – of the wrong kind. Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson once wrote, ‘if nostalgia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012
Especial Ivete, Gil, Caetano
Ivete Sangalo, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso
Whilst most lovers of Brazilian music will be familiar with tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, fewer will know...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2012
The Tel Aviv Session
From the opening notes of Vieux Farka Tomé's spare acoustic guitar riff, backed by fellow Souleymane Kane's gently tapped calabash...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2012
