Reviews
Viva Santa Liberata
For this album the Palermo-born, and politically concerned folk singer, guitarist and tambourine player Politi dives into the archives. The...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2020
Waterbound
The Norwich-based folk trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel Dashwood have been determinedly ‘homespun’ on their previous two...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2020
Ormenion
I loved this disc. It brings to the fore the lively musical traditions that straddle the border of northern Greece,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2020
Nsie Nsie
Y-Bayani & Baby Naa & The Band of Enlightenment, Reason & Love
Ghanaian singers Y-Bayani and Baby Naa give their spin on African roots reggae on Nsie Nsie. Fusing reggae grooves with...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2020
Bread and Jam
If your taste leans toward finely cra.ed, casually philosophical, quirkily upbeat acoustic roots music with a dash of global funk,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
An Sionnach Dubh
Dàibhidh Stiùbhard's remarkably assured debut, An Sionnach Dubh (The Black Fox), showcases one of the most individual of voices to...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2020
O Método
Since he left Madredeus in 1994, Rodrigo Leão has established himself as a masterful songwriter, working on a sort of...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2020
Gnawa Electric Laune
This is an album that has me very much in two minds. It's a fusion of Gnawa music from Morocco...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020
Iquitos – Amazonía – Perú
Through the 1970s Raul Llerena (aka Ranil) took his band up and down the Amazon from their base in Iquitos,...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2020
A Day Will Come
Last summer, when the people of Britain were discussing leaving the European Union and what this meant, harmonica and melodeon...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2020
