Reviews
Love and Death
This is the first ever internationally released studio album from Ebo Taylor, now 74 and one of the legends of...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
BanningsviNe
Flammé Kapaya will be a new name to many. But he spent a decade backing the Congolese singer Werrason in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2013
Trapdoor to Hell
Prodigious young multi-instrumentalist Arthur Coates grew up in Insch in Aberdeenshire listening to his parent's favourite folk music from their...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
Song Up In Her Head
It’s extremely hard to get past the fact that this multi– instrumentalist bluegrass super-talent from Texas is only 19 years...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Şatellites
Şatellites are a brilliant Tel Aviv Turkish-psych cover band – but they’re also much more than that. Some of their...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2022
The Far Side of the Glen
Derek McGinley & Tara Connaghan
From the opening notes of The Far Side of the Glen, if you know anything about Irish fiddle music you’ll...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013
After All These Years
Lakeman is a familiar name: there's Seth, Sean and Sam, all of them famous musicians. Geoff is their father and,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2017
Brinca
Paride Peddio & Jonathan Della Marianna
It is both odd and a real shame that Sardinia's richly vibrant traditional music culture isn’t better known internationally. But...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016
Annwn
Catrin Finch was a child prodigy. She started learning the harp at the age of five, scored the highest marks...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011
Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
Alan Lomax, the American folklorist, ethno-musicologist and filmmaker spent his life travelling the world making field recordings. He is best...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2015
