Reviews
Ŋurru Wäŋa
Originally developed during an Australian Art Orchestra residency in remote Tasmania, the Hand To Earth ensemble creatively established itself in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: September/2025
Wakefire: A Summer Album
Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
In 2019, the English folk supergroup comprising vocal harmony trio Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew) and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2026
Peter’s Field
Sean Cooney with Eliza Carthy, Sam Carter & Jennifer Reid
Sean Cooney has got form. As one part of the Teesside trio, The Young’uns, he has built a reputation for...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2026
Aman Aman: Greek-Anatolian Laments
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
At the turn of the 20th century, two of the most cosmopolitan cities of the eastern Mediterranean were Constantinople and...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2026
The Ark
Last year Anthony Joseph released Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back, a record exploring a day in the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2026
Mâtîrja
British ‘world folk’ artist Ayla Schafer has been releasing for over a decade now. Across multiple album releases, her music...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: May/2026
Woradj Alle (Impressions of Ethiopia)
Brooklyn-based violinist Kaethe Hostetter, aka K8A, has been making experimental music grounded in the traditions of Ethiopia for the better...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: May/2026
Humanicity
The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)
Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019
968 CR13
Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
