Reviews
Talé
Baaba Maal did it with 2009's Television. Amadou & Mariam followed last year with Folila. Now Salif Keita has joined...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013
Flock and Fly
The English concertina player and Sweden-based fiddler released their first album together in 2006, and between then and the set...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2016
Kebrada
Elida Almeida is a 24-year-old Cape Verdean singer, who made a strong impression with her 2015 debut album, Ora Doci,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Redux: Anthology 1978-2015
After two game-changing albums with his mate Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd, John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
And it Was Good
While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
Poor Strange Girl
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer from Ripponden in West Yorkshire, Alice Jones has been around folk music since she was...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Stringhenge
An extremely talented classical guitarist, Richard Durrant wears his considerable talents lightly aross this 22-track double CD. Containing a charming...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2018
It’ll be Fine
Ceol An Aire are a four-piece ceilidh band from Oban, in the West of Scotland, three of whom are still...
Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: July/2014
Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah
The credits on this double album by the young dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer contain the intriguing line:...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
twelvemonth and a day
Based in Columbus, Georgia, this sextet boasts three professors, a music academy director, doctoral candidate and orchestra executive in its...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022
