Reviews
Anclao en Paris
Juan ‘Tata’ Cedrón has been making folk and tango music with one quartet or another since 1964 and has released...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013
Funky Pangolin
The Ghanaian guitarist Kyekyeku – pronounced Tche-tche-kou – formed the Ghanalogue Highlife project in Accra a decade or so ago, although his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Citizen
Led by two ex-Fat Freddy's Drop members – guitarist Warren Maxwell and bassist Rio Hemopo – Trinity Roots have played...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Wona Baba Maraire
Tendai ‘Baba’ Maraire is a man of credentials. As half of Shabazz Palaces, he is a Seattle hip-hopper signed to...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Apr/May/2012
Ivresses
Alireza Ghorbani & Dorsaf Hamdani
Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani and Tunisian singer Dorsaf Hamdani here have teamed up for a celebration of the poetry of...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2011
The Lucky Ones
Hailing from the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada, The Lucky Ones took their name from Alistair MacLeod's...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Café du Brésil
The award-winning label Frémeaux is synonymous with informative historical boxed sets. Paris Gadjo Club's album is a contemporary release but...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2018
Overheard
Birdsong features on a range of recent folk-inflected albums – our avian friends are the exotic new back-ups (although solo...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Symbiosis II
The Ant & Dec of the Scottish trad music scene, if only because they no longer need surnames, Ross Ainslie...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
