Reviews
Dance of the Cobra
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
Spellbound
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
You Will Never Die!
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
Inoni Ana Totoraha
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
A Cry for Revolution
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
Pendulum
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
Bad Old Songs
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
¡Así Kotama! The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador
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
Midnight and Closedown
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
Leyenda
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
