Reviews
Teiliwr: Tailor
An Aberystwyth-based trio brought together in 2014 by, so they say, a common interest in ‘old songs of madness, love,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2026
Aguas
Pitched somewhere between ambient, jazz and Latin lounge, this collaborative album works quietly and slowly, pianist Omar Sosa building spacious...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2026
Tribalistas II
One uses the term ‘supergroup’ with caution, but Tribalistas unite three giants of MPB, (Música Popular Brasileira). The golden-voiced Marisa...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2026
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
When Jeremy Dutcher received the Polaris Prize (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize) for this album in September, he...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: June/2026
Hillevi
Concept albums are a rare thing in folk music but Hillevi is a fine example; it is the result of...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2026
Rewa
Tania Giannouli, Rob Thorne & Steve Garden
Having met just a day before this recording was made, Greek pianist Tania Giannouli and taonga pūoro (traditional Maori instruments)...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2026
Tóg É Go Bog É
Newly reissued on double-vinyl, Tóg É Go Bog É (Take it Easy) is Kíla's 1997 sophomore offering. Then already well-established...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2026
A História do Nordeste
The story of Luiz Gonzaga could have come straight out of a novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado: at 18...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2026
Allt
Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre
This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2026
The Long March
Le Trio Joubran have been musical flag-bearers for the Palestinian people for more than a decade. For The Long March,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2026
