Reviews
Songs of Separation
The star-studded folk ensemble has become a staple of both stage and CD – witness the likes of The Full...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016
Dead Man's Dance
Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017
Tide
Hearing this new album by Zimbabwean funksters Mokoomba for the first time is a truly exciting experience, on a par...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Akal
Atri N’Assouf is Tamashek for ‘the star of the desert’ – a bold claim given how many great Touareg desert...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
Time Was Away
Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Ayobaness! The Sound of South African House
‘This is the new Africa,’ declares the liner notes. But it isn't really. House music has been thudding out of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010
Fiesta
Chico Bouchikhi co-founded the Gipsy Kings and wrote and arranged many of their 80s hits, before leaving in 1992 to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Memories of John
The many former colleagues and fans of the late bluegrass fiddler, banjoist and songwriter John Hartford needed no persuading to...
Reviewed by Jeff Kalis in issue: July/2010
4
The product of a decade of musical research and cross-continental collaboration, 4 is the fruit of Leni Stern's forays into...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
San Patricio
The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder
Paddy Moloney has long held to the patriotic notion that the roots of just about all the world’s music can...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010
