Reviews
Songs to Scythe Back the Overgrown
This young Manchester-based singer-songwriter and guitarist first made a bit of a name for himself in a duo with fiddler...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012
Nduggu
Rafiki Jazz have carved out a reputation for their beautifully fluid mixing of musical traditions that always sounds natural, never...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2021
Bimo
This is the fifth album from the Senegalese griot and kora player who has been UK based for the last...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/September/2022
Masaryk: Národní Písně: Moravian and Slovak Folk Songs Reimagined
A devoted exponent of Yiddish song, Lenka Lichtenberg returns with a deeply personal album that reimagines a 75-year-old collection of...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: November/2017
Transatlantic Sessions Series 6, Volume One
What started nearly two decades ago as an elegantly simple idea for a TV show – gather together some excellent...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014
Songhive: Beelore & Folksong in the British Isles
Folk music often has a special relationship with the native flora and fauna of the land from which it springs....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018
Folk Awards 2011
Twenty-seven tracks selected from nominees for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2011 makes for a compelling compilation. It includes...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Tango 3.0
The release of Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000 and, a year later, La Revancha del Tango changed the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2010
The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba
Yet another compilation of new Brazilian music, this time from self-confessed ‘hoary compiler’ John Armstrong, who concedes the psychedelic samba...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: November/2015
The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia
This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2016
