American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2024
When artists pile on the special guests, sometimes you wish they wouldn’t. However, this nine-piece powerhouse from Leeds have managed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2024
The world lost a unique composer with the passing of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru at the age of 99 last year....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024
The Sahrawi refugee camps are situated out in the deserts of southern Algeria, and are home to the victims of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024
Desassossego (Restlessness) is the second album by Matilde Cid, a fado singer-songwriter from Estremoz, east of Lisbon. Puro, Cid’s first...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2024
Fatima Szalay is a young Hungarian singer who trained at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and this is her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2024
Habitat is the fourth album by C’Mon Tigre, the enigmatic world music collective that has been defying boundaries of genre...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: April/2024
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