Reviews
Araya Lam
The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band
Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band (PBMIB) has released its first studio album since 2016’s successful Planet Lam. The new album...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2024
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/September/2024
Erbil
The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s fifth studio album, Erbil, is filled with the celebration of life through music. Souleyman performs...
Reviewed by Thérèse Wassily Saba in issue: August/September/2024
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert
Bessie Jones, John Davis & the Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell & Ed Young
The immediate (and significant) feeling I got when I first started listening to this 1965 concert was one of privilege;...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: August/September/2024
Siniensigui
Hailing from Côte d’Ivoire and descended from Malian griots, Dembele has become a central figure in Britain’s West African diaspora,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2024
Suomiklezmer2
Hop on the last metro out of Helsinki city centre. Nighttime revelries fade away as the doors slide closed and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/September/2024
Bleu bleu
There’s a post-COVID movement in Québécois folk music in which artists once known for their traditional roots have moved more...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/September/2024
Weġgħat Żgħar
What a surprise to hear an album sung predominantly in Maltese. Infused inevitably with Mediterranean influences, bolstered by perceptible Levantine,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2024
Caracoles
Six years after their Grammy-nominated debut on Daptone, the retro Cuban/New York orchestra’s third album hits another home run. Right...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2024
