Reviews
Osharaku
The Kasai Osharaku Preservation Society and Others
Available as a two-disc CD or 12” vinyl, this compilation is the latest in an ongoing preservation series by EM...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019
The Phosphorescent Blues
Every mention of Chris Thile inevitably describes him as the best mandolin player in the world. Reviews of Punch Brothers’...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2015
Bonny Light Horseman
Seven years ago, Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer released Child Ballads, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award the following...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Near East Quartet
With its combination of moody grooves, fragile melodies, and near-ambient accompaniment, Near East Quartet offers the sonic set menu of...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: April/2019
Africa
The band might not agree, nor perhaps the nation of France – but this really is a fabulous French pop...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010
Agam
This is an enjoyable, if not shatteringly novel, collaboration between a couple of musicians who met by chance in a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Incredible NANÁ
Naná Vasconcelos with Agustín Pereyra Lucena
A de facto solo debut of sorts yet only ever released in Argentina, The Incredible NANÁ dates back to 1971...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: January/2021
Durrant y Ledesma
Richard Durrant & Ismael Ledesma
The harp rose to prominence in the monkish missions of southern South America. In Paraguay, where rural society has survived...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
