Reviews
Ufulu 1991-1997
In urgent need of a bucketful of wholesome joy with none of the risks of eternal damnation? Katawa Singers have...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
Westward the Light
There's a perception of the current crop of young Scottish trad bands that paints them all as playing their own...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
The Wolf of Baghdad Memoir of a Lost Homeland
The Wolf of Baghdad is an ambitious and beautifully executed motion-comic that tells the story of Carol Isaacs’ Iraqi-Jewish family...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: May/2020
Folk Music of China Vol 4: Songs of Guangxi
This is a rare recording of some lesser-known musical traditions from Guangxi, China. The album presents authentic folk songs of...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: May/2020
Siberia Extreme
Chyskyyrai, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder
A unique offering of what at first sounds like it could be experimental field recordings from the northernmost republic of...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: May/2020
Meet the Mahotella Queens
Released in 1966, this was the Mahotella Queens' debut, comprising their first seven singles plus B-sides recorded over the previous...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020
Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions
The friendship between Seu Jorge and Rogê goes back 25 years when the two aspiring musicians met at a gig...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020
Thempest in a Theapot
I would love to go on a long, long walk with Tuulikki Bartosik, gently humming as the leaves rustle underfoot,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2020
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
One Day Band Vol 1
What can you achieve in one day? This is the question posed by Trestle Records in East London with their...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: April/2020
