Reviews
Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds
After all Ian Brennan’s field recordings of mostly non-professional musicians and singers recorded around the world from Rwanda to Romania...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Les Secrets du Ciel
Yann Falquet is best-known as the singer and guitarist who co-founded the award-winning Québécois folk trio Genticorum, celebrated for their...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
All About the Bones
American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
PsychoTropical
Guayabo is Colombian slang for hungover, but it can also mean nostalgia for your homeland, the famous saudade in Portuguese,...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Originali
Orkestar Kriminal’s evolution reaches a highpoint with Originali, their first album of entirely original compositions. Renowned for their renditions of...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall
Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Los Lobos del Recuerdo
Lobos is one of those Buenos Aires province backwater towns where nothing much happens, ever. It may be an accidental...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
After the Morning
Wyndham Baird’s music lives at the intersection of witting imitation, authentic reinterpretation and inspired creation. He sings like his (mostly)...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Trail of Flowers
Sierra Ferrell kicks off her latest album with ‘American Dreaming’, ‘one of several songs co-written with… frequent collaborator Melody Walker...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
