Reviews
Lastenkerääjä
Akkajee are a Finnish band of two akkas, a term they define as a ‘head-strong woman with a decisive attitude...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2021
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle
I Kate and Anna McGarrigle were the unlikeliest of pop stars, two plain-spoken homebodies raised in the ancient Laurentian mountain...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: October/2013
Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast
A unique instrument is always eye-catching, and Noori’s incredible self-made (literally) fusion of an electric guitar and a tambour (lyre)...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2022
Livre
A seminal figure in Portuguese music, the guitarist Mário Pacheco for many years ran the Clube de Fado in Lisbon...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
Coffee Creek
What does modern bluegrass sound like? It sounds like The Slocan Ramblers – who sound a lot like the great...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Zhyli-Byli
Sergei Starostin is a major figure on the Russian folk scene, yet he’s still all too little known, despite his...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
More Big Musik from Over There!
Even though the title is pretty terrible, there’s an elegant charm about this Sheffield-based collective’s debut that’s missing from many...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Exotic Other
Animanz are three musical childhood friends, based in London, who front a collective committed to playing party tunes in which...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
Zoo of Songs
German group Pulsar Trio have transplanted the emblematic instrument of Hindustani classical music – the sitar – into a northern...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018
