Reviews
The Sky is the Same Colour Everywhere
Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté
In recent years the kora has proven to be remarkably adaptable in duetting with non-African instruments. On The Sky is...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Best of
As well as his years with Lau – five studio albums and numerous live sets – Drever has had an...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023
The Devil's on the Mast
The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn
The prolific folk duo, fiddler Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger, have joined forces on their latest release with singer...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2023
Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay
There's an almost timeless, specifically British strain of pastoralism conjured on this second collaboration between acoustic guitarists Jim Ghedi (six-string)...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2023
Wa Maret El Ayam /Hakam Aleena El Hawa
The cultural legacy Oum Kalthoum holds in Egypt and the wider Arab world is impossible to overstate. Beloved by heads...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2023
Folkocracy
Son of folk-singers Loudon Wainwright and the late Kate McGarrigle, young Rufus can claim descent from ‘folkocracy’, although since his...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023
Medna Roso
PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm
This is the kind of inter-cultural collaboration I can get into. Too often, such projects are the mooncalves of questions...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2023
Hues of Imagination
Melisa Yıldırım & Swarupa Ananth
This is a remarkable duo of Anatolian fiddle with Indian tabla percussion. Melisa Yıldırım plays an Azeri-style bowed kamancha with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023
The World and All That It Holds
There are some critics out there – and I am not one – who maintain that Damir Imamović is heir...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023
Speech of Species
This follow-up to Belgian quartet Echoes Of Zoo's 2021 debut Breakout is, by all accounts, a concept album exploring the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2023
