One of the jewels in Topic's vast catalogue has to be the work of Martin Carthy, one of the colossi...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2018
Whatever prejudices you might have about Bavarian folk music – you know, those Oktoberfest, beer-fuelled, lederhosen-clad, thigh-slapping, oom-pah brass-band stereotypes...
Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: March/2010
Building on the promise of their fine 2014 debut album, Housewarming, and 2015's EP September, Melbourne's Mae Triocontinue to impress...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
In her liner notes for this project, first released on vinyl earlier this year, Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya refers to...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: December/2016
Kadialy Kouyaté & Leonard Jacome
The premise of this album may seem a little familiar: a cross-cultural harp collaboration between Senegalese kora maestro Kadialy Kouyaté...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2015
The Amazon has been imagined as a tree, its trunk passing from Brazil through Colombia and into Peru, with branches...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2020
Only one year after their acclaimed 2020 release Songs Beyond Words, Taiwan-based group A Moving Sound return with another eclectic...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2021
Recorded in New York before the onset of COVID-19, this latest album by Egyptian/Australian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros is a...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2021
Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Benji Kirkpatrick is a founder member of big-band folk trailblazers Bellowhead and a current member of Faustus, but he is...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
Like Natacha Atlas, Laila Amezian was bom in Belgium to parents of Moroccan heritage. And like Atlas, she has spent...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
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