Reviews
Muzyka spod Radomia
This album is like spending an evening at a superb village folk night in Poland, which wouldn’t have existed 20...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Under One Sun
Brina_is Subrina Ward, a Jamaican singer married to Kieran Murray, a multi-talented Scot who collaborated with her and other musicians...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Oj Borom, Borom
Maniucha Bikont & Ksawery Wojcinski
This beautifully produced set comes with a fascinating essay from singer Maniucha Bikont about the source of these songs, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2018
Mud, Blood & Beer
Not many observers might have expected comedian Adrian Edmondson’s jiggery-jokery folk-punk outfit to last beyond a few gigs, let alone...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Rough Guide to Blues Divas
The stereotypical image of the early blues pioneers as black itinerant males playing bottleneck guitar on the plantations of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Luilliamson in issue: April/2020
Paspanga
On every track of this album there's a rich and strange presence in the soundscape, be it a lick, a...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2012
As Long as Songbirds Sing
Since meeting, literally on stage, at a late-night jam session in London’s West End, jazz and folk guitarist James Kitchman...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2020
Songs from Mexico
It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017
Bamako Sessions
Invisible System, aka producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Harper, is best known for his heavy dub-rock takes on Ethiopian music, drafting...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2018
These Feral Lands Vol 1
Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
The music is typical Laura Cannell: open, chordal (lots of over-bowed violin), improvised. It’s the presence of Stewart Lee on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2021
