Reviews
Sun Shine Soul
Ameranouche, as implied by the name, are a US Gypsy jazz, or manouche swing, trio. Led by guitarists Richard Sheppard...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Rose in June
Boden's presence on the 21st-century British folk scene has been colossal – from his stint in Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2020
Declaration
Favourites on the Australian folk circuit, it's been eight years since Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton's last recording, Summer's Lonesome...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Nani
Nani is the debut album from Finnish folk musician and researcher Emmi Kujanpää. An avid enthusiast of Finnish and Bulgarian...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2020
In Dub
Probably best known as one-half of New Zealand electronic duo Pitch Black, flame-haired producer/keyboardist Paddy Free has also twiddled the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Songs of Biboki
Reviewing music like this is a bit like trying to slap a star rating on someone's breathing – it's rather...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: Apr/May/2012
Surya: Chants of Light
Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2014
Child Ballads
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
There's power in the aoss-traffic of Americans interpreting British traditional music, and vice versa. Bob Dylan's big early songs took...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Togetherings
Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019
