Reviews
Uncensored Folk Music of Austria
These are two wonderfully down-home compilations of folk musicians, mainly recorded in Austria by Arhoolie boss Chris Strachwitz in 1967...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Rakshasa
Guitarist Simon Thacker has assembled a team of first-rate musicians including the brilliant classical violinist Jacqueline Shave from the Britten...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2013
Akofa Akoussah
Togolese singer Akofa Akoussah died in 2007 aged just 57 and this – originally recorded and released by the French...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2019
Anskoonamakew slii Shansoon
It's not often that music recorded a few weeks ago evokes a vivid atmosphere of many centuries past. Andrea Menard's...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: April/2023
Something Blue
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
First, a caveat: Rob Heron and his sharp-as-nails orchestra hail from old Newcastle, the one on the River Tyne in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Mezo: Field
Serbian Hungarian Félix Lajkô is one of Europe’s most remarkable violin players – a true virtuoso, but a quixotic and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2014
Make the Light
Kate Rusby has always interspersed her own compositions among traditional songs. Now, for the first time, she has made an...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2011
Maputo Electronico
Smadj/Chico Antônio/Rhodalia Silvestre
This new Maputo Electronico combination involves the musical traditions of Mozambique and Tunisia, filtered through a French electronic gauze, its...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2022
Noir et Blanc
Recorded in 1983 by the composer Hector Zazou in collaboration with French synth experimentalists Guillaume Loizillon and Claude Micheli (aka...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017
