Reviews
Li Pedi
Nisia Trio's Li Pedi is an album for the ears as well as for the feet. Dancing their way from...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: April/2023
Tales from a Forgotten City
The forgotten city of this CD’s title is, of course, Mostar itself, once a tolerant city of Christians, Muslims and...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2014
Afrobrasileira
This impressively confident debut album is the work of Barcelona-based Mirla Riomar, singer-songwriter from Salvador da Bahia, in north-east Brazil....
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: June/2022
Remembering Nusrat
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Group | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
In 2007, ten years after the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his nephew and disciple Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2011
Mazovian Roots Re:action
Warsaw Village Band, now well entrenched as Poland's best-known folk music export, have a history of experimentation and collaboration. Sometimes...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2019
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Fatou
Just when you thought Mali couldn't possibly produce any more extraordinary new musical stars, here's another. Born in the Ivory...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: October/2011
The Angel's Share
The angels surely look down kindly on mellifluous fiddle and guitar parts, and on mournful tunes pulled up by the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
Taoba
A new group from the Solomon Islands, Kaumaakonga hail from the small southern isles of Mungava and Mungiki (jointly referred...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019
