Reviews
Jubel
Two decades ago a group of young folk musicians said farewell to the Norwegian State Music Academy and decided to...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021
Color de Trópico
The mining of South America's lost music archives continues apace, seemingly unimpeded by anything new and exciting. This vinyl, compiled...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2021
The Art of the Duduk
The glorious 11th-century Varagavank monastery on the front of this CD shows that architecture is one of the great achievements...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2021
Solas an Lae
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien
Fiddler Ultan O'Brien and singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin have been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets in recent years. Having first...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2021
Lunar Tredd
Fimber Bravo may not be Trinidad's best-known steel pan player. His skill comes instead through experimentation, a creative approach that...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2021
This Old House
Bran Sanders hails from Shallow Lake in rural Ontario, though he's since lived a semi-nomadic, busking way through life on...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021
While I Sit and Watch This Tree
Lizabett Russo is a cool, gently hypnotic singer whose songs drift effortlessly between folk and jazz, with echoes of her...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2021
Songs Beyond Words
Performing together for more than 20 years, the husband and wife team of vocalist Mia Hsieh, a Taiwan native, and...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: March/2021
Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1
‘We are very, very curious,' this aptly named international seven-piece collective suggests – and what a curious album this is....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2021
