Reviews
Future Trad Collective
The Future Trad Collective's music has the aura of a mighty jam session. The creation of three musicians who all...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011
Tyro
What an assured and brilliant debut this is. Rua Macmillan was awarded the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Batuque and Finaçon
This collection showcases two of Cape Verde's most traditional and resolutely African musical styles – batuque and finaçon – which...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2011
Together
The Mercury Music Prize – arguably Britain's premier album award – has a reputation for destroying rather than making careers....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011
Oak Ash Thorn
The legend and music of Peter Bellamy looms large over the new generation of British folk stars. Many of them...
Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: June/2011
Palermo Snow
There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Essential
To celebrate the 70th birthday of England's foremost folk singer, the country's most original and innovative guitarist and a man...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011
Remembering Nusrat
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook
In 2007, ten years after the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his nephew and disciple Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2011
Aquí Los Bravos
Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo
Every time a new album comes out of one of Colombia's coastal regions, one fact becomes ever clearer: if it...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011
Night Nurse: The Best Of
Gregory Isaacs, who died at the age of 59 in October last year, was one of the most popular and...
Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: June/2011
