Originally from California, now based in Boston, the young uilleann piper Joey Abarta names his second album after a tune...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023
Following the recent fusion-oriented album Enigma, Danish reedsman Bjonko Stosic and band return with a more traditional take on the...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023
Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023
‘The word [Onipa] means ‘human’ in Akan, the ancient language of the Ashanti people of Ghana,’ frontman Kweku Sackey (aka...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2023
From Tuva via Moscow to Vienna, Sainkho here visits abandoned islands in the Venetian lagoon, improvising lyrical vocal lines, soft...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2023
Dyad (Didier Laloy & Adrien Tyberghein)
The partnership of double bass with diatonic accordion might seem as unlikely as a romance between a Great Dane and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2023
With stalwart melodeon player Saul Rose and sympatico guitarist David Delarre, Eliza Carthy has hit on the perfect combination. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2023
OKI is the tonkori-wielding bard famed for bringing the endangered music of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, one of Japan’s...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023
This album draws on songs collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles for their English Folk Songs from the Southern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023
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