Reviews

A Dotted Line

Nickel Creek

A quarter-century after capturing the imagination of the bluegrass community as pre-teen prodigies, Chris Thile (mandolin/vocals), Sara Watkins (fiddle/vocals) and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014

Summer Hill

Damien O’Kane

The acclaimed young singer-songwriter, guitarist and banjo player from Coleraine in Co. Derry has established his reputation with accordionist Shona...

Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: July/2010

Round & Round

Ciaran O'Kane

County Antrim-based Ciaran O'Kane's debut album is a fine and muscular release. Opening with the traditional track ‘The Banks of...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2019

Aria

Richard Galliano & Thierry Escaich

The witty liner notes to this collaboration liken the meeting between accordionist Richard Galliano and organist Thierry Escaich to a...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018

Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: January/February/2022

Secret Marriage

Cači Vorba

Cači Vorba’s debut album won a German Record Critics' Award last year and was a Top of the World release...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Ruhabi

Outhouse Ruhabi

Forming musical communities is all the rage for young jazz artists on the London scene. The emerging double-sax quartet Outhouse...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2010

The Life & Times Of…

The Hot 8 Brass Band

The Hot 8 Brass Band have every right to sing the blues. Forced to flee New Orleans due to Hurricane...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

End of the World Remixes

Elza Soares

Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017

공 空 ('Empty')

Melanie Eden

Melanie Eden is an Australian performance poet and musician who does not do things by halves. Notable for her unvarnished...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2021