Reviews
In the Shadow of the Song
The soft, mellow but plangent tone of the duduk is instantly recognisable and tugs at the heart strings. It has...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2026
Manghoua Foura
The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2026
Roll On, Roll On
Tom Paley’s Old-Time Moonshine Revue
Tom Paley is something of a living legend. One of the handful of musicians who kicked off the US folk...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2026
El Rumor de los Tangos
This album gave me an epiphany – of the wrong kind. Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson once wrote, ‘if nostalgia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2026
Especial Ivete, Gil, Caetano
Ivete Sangalo, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso
Whilst most lovers of Brazilian music will be familiar with tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, fewer will know...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2026
The Tel Aviv Session
From the opening notes of Vieux Farka Tomé's spare acoustic guitar riff, backed by fellow Souleymane Kane's gently tapped calabash...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2026
Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 4
With his consistently excellent Viagem series, Italian jazz don Nicola Conte has compiled some of the richest, strangest and most...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2026
Archipelago
These are songs from the Scottish islands, from Shetland in the north to Ailsa Craig in the south, sung in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2026
Guwak
The first thing most listeners would think upon hearing young Aboriginal band East Journey is that we’ve heard this before....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2026
The Road to Berryville
It’s a rare album that grabs you with every track, but Appalachian quartet Furnace Mountain have managed it with The...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: June/2026
