Reviews
Trails and Tribulations
Trails and Tribulations is consistently both beautiful, and beautifully crafted. It has an ambience of wistful, weary experience, thanks to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Their First Album
The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010
Hatchling
Emily Portman’s debut album, The Glamoury (reviewed in #68), launched a distinctive voice and songwriter on the 21st century folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Världen kom Tillbaka
This delicate, tinkling debut steals in like fine hoar frost, its Swedish title speaking of the desire to reconnect with...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2015
The Guesthouse Sessions
Lockdown has proved a rich creative experience for the Belgian bal folk duo, diatonic accordionists Pascale Rubens and Toon Van...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021
Encantações
Brazilian music has shown for some time a spectacular porousness and a seeming ease in introducing traditional forms to modern...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2017
Hanin: Field Recordings in Syria 2008-2009
Compiled by Spanish musician and filmmaker Michel Gasco between 2008 and 2009, this collection of field recordings spans a period...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Ayn Trio
Palestinian oud and buzuq player and composer Basel Zayed brings together fellow Palestinian Layth Sidiq on violin and Iraqi/Jordanian cellist...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2019
Don Letts Presents: Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown Vol 2
Don Letts hosts an enjoyably eclectic radio show on BBC 6Music and is something of an icon of the late-70s...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
Roots of Ska: USA Jamaica 1942-62
In his book Bass Culture, the writer Lloyd Bradley vividly evokes the era before ska and rocksteady eras in 50s...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
