This latest 14-track, live recording from prolific Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist Saulius Petreikis and his guitarist brother Donatas Petreikis, came out in...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: October/2021
In 1981, Motown producer Art Stewart travelled to Abidjan to scope out the possibility of a series of African-American collaborations...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021
Suistamon Sähkö exist in their own colourful world and, every so often, I’m glad to say, they let us in....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2021
Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Former Finnish ballet dancer Maarika Autio went to West Africa to study kora and the diatonic balafon, which is rarely...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: October/2021
Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: October/2021
Flo Perlin may cite diverse musical influences, given her extensive world travel and her Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, but in...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: October/2021
Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2021
This is an exciting collaboration from two heavy rock bands exploring traditional music on an album that very much pushes...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: October/2021
This is another stupendous release from the emergent 30M Records. Kamancheh player Saba Alizadeh’s second solo album is an introspective,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2021
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