Reviews
Unite
Some folks follow in the footsteps of Fela, others follow Femi… This ten-piece Afrobeat band from Spain seem to opt...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2022
Treacle & Bread
On the sleeve of this marvellous album there’s a picture of Rod Stradling playing his melodeon and beaming. He’s smiling...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2022
Valge Valgus
Flanders-born accordionist Hartwin Dhoore has been intimately involved with some of the most innovative and entertaining traditional-inspired music to emerge...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2022
Brave Land
Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022
A la Manera Artesana
Spanish folk has a quality perfect for our times: the ability to wail, complain and lament and, at the same...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022
Frank Y Sus Inquietos
In the clubs of Caracas in the late 1960s, salsa was going off. Or more specifically, a sound that mixed...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2022
Zār Songs for the Spirits
Zār is a rite that arrived in Egypt with migration – partly due to slavery – from sub-Saharan East Africa....
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2022
Sound Therapy
French multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Julien Souletie has been working under the name Manjul from his own Humble Ark Studio...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2022
The Castalia
Edinburgh based fiddler Ratcliff’s beguiling debut is an evocative blend of traditional music cultures of Cape Breton, New Brunswick and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2022
