Reviews
A Gathering of Strangers 2021
Transglobal Underground & Our European Friends
A Gathering of Strangers first saw light in 2010 when it was released by a pan-EU collective headed by dubtronic...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Expedition to the Lost World, Part II: Spring
Jarek Adamów is a Polish muti-instrumentalist – accordion, clarinet, hurdy-gurdy and many other things – with a strong interest in the raw...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
Tutku
Kalaha + Hilal Kaya with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Danish quartet Kalaha first tackled a Turkish tune on their third album, 2019’s Mandala, which was also the first time...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2022
A Tarot of the Green Wood
The seven songs on this third studio album from Burd Ellen, the Glasgow-based project featuring Debbie Armour and Gayle Brogan,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
And So We Gather
Kim Carnie wrote most of this debut album in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, and she has captured the unhurried peacefulness of...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2022
New York Boogaloo
Boogaloo is the infectious Latin-soul dance craze of the late 60s and early 70s that brought the world ‘I Like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2015
Beginner's Guide to English Folk
There's no shortage of folk compilations out there – be they strange folk, nu-folk, psych-folk or angry folk. When I...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Wary + Strange
As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
Estudando o Samba
You will find a lot written of Tom Zé, calling him everything from a ‘cultural cannibal’ to a ‘revolutionary anarchist,’...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: April/2019
Got to Be Tough
The first Toots and the Maytals release in over ten years is a big deal for reggae enthusiasts. The 77-year-old...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2020
