Reviews
Golden Loam
Using fingerstyle electric guitar and lap steel, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist Premo plumbs layers of harmonic ambience, granular textural effects and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022
Haneen
Brickwork Lizards describe themselves as an Arabic jazz-folk ensemble. Based in Oxford, the ten-strong group have released their second record,...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: May/2018
After the Tempest
It was in 1992 that British musicians Martin Cradick and Su Hart conceived their improbable fusion of Celtic and Baka...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2014
Faransiskiyo Somaliland
Fans of all things desert-bluesy should check out Sahra Halgan. She has just returned to her homeland – the fledgling...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: April/2016
Yeni Dunya
Honed on the streets of Istanbul, the message of Light in Babylon comes out loud and clear, across time and...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: April/2017
Call Me Home
Not only have this youthful Norwich-based folk/Americana trio independently released their rather lovely debut album, but each copy features a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2017
Gipsy Manifesto
Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar
Balkan brass bands still wallop their bass drums with the same switches used by Ottoman marching bands, the kind Haydn...
Reviewed by Joe Walker in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Pastourelle
Cecilia is a neat little trio of fine Belgian musicians from the bal folk, or Boombal, scene, which is a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Awalin
Steve Shehan is a man who has been there and done that, earning his crust playing percussion with Paul Simon,...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Fading Mystery
There's a lot of this around: acoustic groups led by articulate singer-songwriters playing accomplished bluegrass-influenced music. But while Taarka aren’t...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: August/2017
