Yarima Blanco won the De la Tradición Sonera y Campesina (From the Son and Country Tradition) award at last year's...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023
For this album the Palermo-born, and politically concerned folk singer, guitarist and tambourine player Politi dives into the archives. The...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2020
In the two years since the release of their duo debut, The Queen's Lover, guitarist Russell and fiddle-player Algar have...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014
Cunning folk were – are – people of wisdom, practitioners of folk medicine and magic. Here, though, Cunning Folk is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2019
A kind of one-man Cape Verdean chamber group, Rufino Almeida (also known as Bau), has plucked a steady course through...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
The 2013 debut album by the Estonian fiddler and singer Maarja Nuut secured her a WOMEX showcase, which those lucky...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Hanggai have been performing interpretations of traditional music from both Inner Mongolia in China (where they hail from) and the...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2019
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
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