Reviews
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
My Bluegrass Heart
Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Tango Argentino Today
El Afronte Orquesta Típica are rising stars in the world of tango. For good reason, too: the Buenos Aires ten-piece...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2019
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Con Todo el Mundo
Take the surf versions of Middle Eastern folk tunes ‘Misirlou’ and ‘Hava Nagila’. Blend them with dub, 1960s Iranian pop...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
Dr Strangedub (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb)
This was supposedly written as a response to the ever-mushrooming sense of doom commonly experienced thanks to climate change, Trump,...
Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019
Na Zala Zala
Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble
This is the debut album from Rey Sapienz, who grew up surrounded by the tragedy of the second Congo War...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
On Our Way
Based in Istanbul and led by the powerful singer, percussionist and composer Michal Elia Kamal (born in Israel to Iranian...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2023
Balfron Promise
Comprising four musicians with Palestinian roots who formed a group in Jordan in 2013 but who are now resident in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2018
Mountain Songs and Other Stories
Maxida Märak & Downhill Bluegrass Band
Sámi activist Maxida Märak usually performs dubstep and hip-hop. But a few years ago she heard Steve Earle's ‘The Mountain’,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2015
