There's a certain emotional urgency that can only be delivered by a live album. Live in Bamako, Oumar Konaté's fourth...
Reviewed by Leander Hobbs in issue: June/2018
Lisbon-born French singer Lio became a pop icon in France and Belgium following her hit single ‘Le Banana Split’ in...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2018
The third studio album by Toronto's Lonesome Ace Stringband underscores the trio's reputation as a tightly knit unit committed to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2018
New York DJ Nickodemus has never been one to stay isolated in the Big Apple. Drawing upon a myriad of...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2018
Arash Moradi plays the tanbur – a saz-like long-necked lute that is played in Iranian Kurdistan. For many it is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
It is truly extraordinary how so many treasures of Jewish music got lost or were concealed behind the Iron Curtain...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Bardik Springs is very much an album of two halves. The first CD offers an elegant fusion of Indian classical...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2018
Memory is an elusive and unreliable thing. The second album from the American folk duo passes like a memory recalled...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2018
Quoting from hyperbolic press releases is probably not good album-reviewing practice but it's hard to resist the description of this...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018
Martin Simpson has curated his own Introduction To set for the Topic label, and has even gone to the trouble...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
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