Reviews
Alhambra by Night
Alhambra by Night is the second outing for a musical collaboration between Dutch flamenco guitarist, Jacco Muller, and American oud...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2025
Norwegian Electronic Folk Music
Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
Norway has a thriving and intriguing experimental folk scene, and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Lien is one of its key exponents. I...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Tropical Desert
BABON present an intriguing take on a globally diverse instrumental groove. Formed in Indonesia by schoolmates Rayi and Wahyudi (to...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
Áshira
Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit
There’s something transcendental about this time-bending collaboration between Copenhagen-based composer Jan Kadereit and Balinese gamelan orchestra Salukat. For those unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2025
Heavy Combination 1966–2007
When Kenyan singer and activist Joseph Kamaru passed away in 2018, his grandson (also named Joseph Kamaru) felt an urgent...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/2026
La Marea
BAFTA Award-winning Latin American composer Bryan Senti returns with a companion piece to his previous album, Manu. Whereas that record...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2026
Cosán Casta
Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy
Cosán Casta means ‘winding path’, an apt title for this collaboration between fiddle player Aoife Ní Bhriain and pianist Cormac...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2026
Engrained
A purist’s delight. This is a debut album from a quartet of English fiddlers, all with firm reputations on the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2026
Oli kerran ryytimaassa…
Pekko Käppi has helped revive the jouhikko, an ancient Finnish bowed lyre, by producing over 10 albums featuring the instrument...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: January/2026
Conflict
Pounding drums, driving electric guitar and forthright vocals – this is rock-folk rather than folk-rock. As Prior states on the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2026
