To anyone familiar with the vibrant sounds of Indian wedding bands, this will come as a welcome album. What they...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
It might be an act of contrariness for one of the world’s leading percussionists to devote an album to the...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2013
Clarinettist Yom's second project with his band The Wonder Rabbis comes seven years after the first one. In between, he's...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
With an energy beyond that of normal mortals, these enthusiastic Solomon Islanders are a festival promoter's dream: Melanesian men with...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Tradition, longevity, family and seniority are key values for indigenous Bolivians. It's fitting that this album celebrates 50 years of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
Virginian banjo player, singer, and songwriter Morgan O’Kane has delivered a powerful punch of a second album. Many of the...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird
American-born, Berlin-based Daniel Kahn is one of the most interesting arrivals on the klezmer scene in the last few years....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013
The town of Otavalo, high up in the Ecuadorian Andes, is renowned for its crafts and its indigenous folk music....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
After a wait of nearly four years the British folk scene's bravest experimenters are back with their fifth studio album,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2019
Paying tribute variously to Mother Earth, to a Chinese goddess of flight and to the wicked sirens of Andalusian waterfalls,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
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