Reviews
Astrakan Project B
The follow-up album to the pair's Astrakan Project features more bracing Breton gloominess by this talented couple. The disc is...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2015
Tilham
Forty-five years and counting, with this their 14th album, Blowzabella are an institution of the English folk revival to stand...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023
Amour, T’es Là?
A weird one. A US-based Greek female singer and student of film soundtrack writing has taken it upon herself to...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
An tSLí
Bernard O’Neill has an impressive history. A classically-trained pianist and cellist, he has played double bass for the likes of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2020
Hoa Âm Xu'a
Since 2016, Saigon Soul Revival have been gigging at venues across Vietnam, entertaining audiences with their distinctive style of revamped...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: April/2020
Color
Essentially this is a fusion album of French accordion café music with a Congolese slant. Papa Noel is a veteran...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2014
Mountscribe
Piggott was the musical engine behind a number of folk releases over the past year or so – from Sussex...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Songs from Aulejas
This album of 16 a capella songs comes out of a doctoral thesis by Latvian musicologist Asnate Rancâne who studied...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Iphupho: A Cappella from South Africa
Afrika Mamas’ fourth album, Iphupho (New Dreams), beautifully encapsulates the magic of sisterhood and the central role that community plays...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: April/2018
The Rich are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
The eighth album by British-Trinidadian Renaissance man Anthony Joseph takes its title from a line by legendary Trinidadian theorist CLR...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
