Reviews
Tambours Croisés: Chapter Two
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
Thempest in a Theapot
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
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Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)
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
All Life is Here
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
Ma Nature
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
Assaf
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
Owerset
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
Jayme Stone's Folklife
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
The Rough Guide to African Roots Revival
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
