Reviews
Notes to Self
The Welsh harpist’s first solo album in a decade – following her stunning albums and tours with Seckou Keita and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2026
Jazz Is Dead 026
Working together since 1969, the hugely popular musical partnership of Antonio Carlos and Jocafi combines the folk traditions of their...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: May/2026
Som Sistema
Bern-based Afro-Brazilian singer Mariana Da Cruz’s seventh album is an urban, global-minded set that moves freely across genres, coloured by...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2026
Cartografado
It is telling that the very first seconds in Cartografado are evocative not of fado, but of samba and choro....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2021
Times of Maharajas
Led by tabla player Rahis Bharti, the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan are one of the busiest ensembles touring Rajasthani music...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Trance Gamelan in Bali
If you can imagine a piece of cutting-edge electronica being played over the “party in the background” noises that you...
Reviewed by John Whitfieldft in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Fallow Ground
Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021
Lysøen: Hommage a Ole Bull
Nils Økland & Sigbjørn Apeland
Hardanger fiddle and violin player Nils Økland makes music that sounds as if he were spinning fine lace between the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2011
Footwork
The debut album from English fiddler Lewis Wood is something of a concept album – and it’s a nice concept. Footwork...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: August/September/2022
Tall Fiddler
There is a temptation for top-level bluegrass musicians to make pretentious, over-complicated fusion albums. This is not one of those....
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2020
