This album comes, frustratingly, with very poor liner notes, which is infuriating as this CD is very good indeed. What...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2020
A seagull's head on dancer's legs – not at all disturbing or Hieronymous Bosch-like – is artist Kirsty Whiten's cover...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Singer and environmental campaigner Olga del Madagascar hails from, as you would expect, Madagascar. The East African island is festooned...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2016
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
Surrounded by the bowed drones of Bridget Marsden's fiddle, Leif Ottosson's accordion and Morten Kvam's double bass, Sarah-Jane Summers' fiddle...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: April/2019
An extension of his 2015 Lomax Project, the renowned Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone now presents us with Jayme Stone's Folklife,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2017
One of the keys to success in the competitive compilation market is to find fresh and interesting thematic approaches that...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012
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