Reviews

Les Secrets du Ciel

Yann Falquet

Yann Falquet is best-known as the singer and guitarist who co-founded the award-winning Québécois folk trio Genticorum, celebrated for their...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

All About the Bones

Chris Smither

American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

PsychoTropical

Los Guayabo Brothers

Guayabo is Colombian slang for hungover, but it can also mean nostalgia for your homeland, the famous saudade in Portuguese,...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Originali

Orkestar Kriminal

Orkestar Kriminal’s evolution reaches a highpoint with Originali, their first album of entirely original compositions. Renowned for their renditions of...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

EZRA

EZRA

With the eponymously titled EZRA, composer, multi-instrumentalist and luthier Jesse Jones establishes his acoustic ensemble as one of our planet’s...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Los Lobos del Recuerdo

La Chicana

Lobos is one of those Buenos Aires province backwater towns where nothing much happens, ever. It may be an accidental...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

After the Morning

Wyndham Baird

Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Trail of Flowers

Sierra Ferrell

Sierra Ferrell kicks off her latest album with ‘American Dreaming’, ‘one of several songs co-written with… frequent collaborator Melody Walker...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Rembobine

Mélisande

For the past 10 years, the Québécois band Mélisande [éléctrotrad] has been creating dance-floor electro versions of traditional French-Canadian songs...

Reviewed in issue July/2024