Reviews
Tusona: Tracings in the Sand
Mokoomba are back at last, six years on from their last album Luyando and ten years after winning a Songlines...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2023
Barefoot in Bryophyte
Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus
Already a fan, I was lucky enough to see the first public outing of this project in Voss Jazz Festival...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: September/2024
Remains to Be Scene
Not every bluegrass album starts with a cover of Ray Davies’ ‘Last of the Steam-Powered Trains’. But that’s part of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2025
Magia Negra: The Beginning
For her latest offering, the octogenarian diva and former Buena Vista Social Club singer has revisited the first LP she...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Apr/May/2015
Do Coração
Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020
On Eastern Way
Boris Kovac & David Yengibarian | Boris Kovac: & La Campanella
Composer and saxophonist Boris Kovač is an intriguing figure in Serbian music. Born and based in the Vojvodina region in...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2013
Forest Bathing
The partnership of violinist Heather Trost and accordion and percussionist Jeremy Barnes has moved from indie-leaning beginnings through to fully...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2018
Sleeping Spirals
“I didn’t think I did need a cellist,” Hannah James says in a video describing the genesis of her new...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
