Reviews
Stormweere
Formed around the voices of sister and brother Eva and Maarten Decombel with the mandolin and synths of Trio Dhoore’s...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2020
Canciones de Isaac
Breezes, birdsong, crickets, leaf-litter, the hum of Caracas by night, and the more serene sounds of daytime walks through Pyrenean...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022
Amerika
Music professor and folk guitar virtuoso Dimitris Mystakidis has been performing, teaching and writing books about rebetika for over two...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/2017
Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956
Greek Rhapsody is an organic, if indirect, extension of a 2005 collaboration between British musician and archivist Tony Klein and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2013
Utopia
This is the Russian band Markscheider Kunst’s fifth album and for my money their least satisfying. Which is ironic considering...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2010
This is Broken Folk
Percussionist, tap dancer and performance artist Carli Jefferson toured internationally with the physical theatre group Stomp, before meeting non-binary singer...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Japanese Traditional Music: Songs of People at Work and Play
This album is the fifth volume in an anthology of traditional Japanese music, created in 1941 by the Kokusai Bunka...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2017
