Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts
Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018
Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
Bákini is not just the name of this album, it is a project led by musicians and educators Michael Spiro...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2018
Birl – meaning to dance or, in relation to the fiddle, a rapid percussive shivering of the bow – is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2018
Formed in 2014, Mile Twelve are largely the product of the interest in bluegrass and other acoustic folk idioms within...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2018
Latvian post-folk group Iļg‘i have been around for over three decades, tracing their heritage back to the folk-oriented musicological researches...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2018
For their first new album in six years, The Wailin’ Jennys celebrate a 15-year-long relationship with a nine-track collection of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2018
The tragedy of West Papua and its peoples’ hopes for eventual independence is an ongoing daily struggle for the native...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018
It's always refreshing to hear music that has nothing to hide behind. The London-based folk duo of Laura Smyth &...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
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