Reviews

Vårvindar Friska

Rydvall/Mjelva

Here are two musicians who discovered some sort of magic potion in a cellar in Stockholm when they played two...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019

Kind of Folk: Vol 1 Sweden

Groupa

Mysterious flutes beckon us into a forest. A haunting fiddle beguiles us with tunes from an age gone by. A...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2017

Digging the Underground Vol 1: The Nation Years

Transglobal Underground

Right now, it's with rainbow-tinted nostalgia that we remember the good old bad days of the early 1990s, a time...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2016

Tidens Ekko

Vingefang

Vingefang are a duo comprising Lene Høst and Miriam Ariana, who are both former students of Scandinavian folk music at...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2018

Político

Mexican Institute of Sound

The Mexican Institute of Sound certainly know how to have a knees-up – in the pot of musical treats is...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Sky Blue Love

AMJ meets RSD

Anyone interested in 70 minutes of rather clinical, polite dub reggae? OK, that's a little unfair, but there's something about...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2016

KWEChE

Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno

The nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre of the Luo people in Kenya. Played in a fast and rhythmic way,...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2021

Akave

Telek

As far as recording goes, Papua New Guinea’s most celebrated musician, George Mamua Telek, has never been that prolific. With...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2010

The Peasant Girl

Viktoria Mullova

Don't be put off by the contrived photo on the cover of this eclectic double CD: much love has gone...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Sublime

Alex Cuba

Alex Cuba, a name well known to Cuban-music fans, brings a new angle to his easy-listening, groove-based sound with Sublime....

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2020