Reviews
Souvenance
You would expect the events of late 2010 that sparked the Arab Spring to have had a profound effect on...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Kadodi
The transliteration of ritual practice to the club dance floor is always an interesting – and often politically charged –...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: April/2019
The Art of the Portuguese Fado Guitar
Custódio Castelo is one of today's finest players of the 12-stringed Portuguese guitar. He is perhaps best known as the...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2011
Rustin’ in the Rain
Tyler Childers’ sixth studio album, Rustin’ in the Rain,’ is one of the best and brightest indie-country releases in recent...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2023
Migratum
Migratum is the Chicago trio’s debut album, building in form, beats complexity and melodies from 2019’s self-titled EP. The term...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: August/2024
Lisané Bahir
Lisané Bahir, the fourth offering from LA-based Ethiopian keys player Kibrom Birhane is an otherworldly set deftly combining tradition with...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: January/2026
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Placeless
Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat
Given the track record of Kronos Quartet and Iranian singers Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat, it's not surprising that this is a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019
Locks & Bolts
There's innovation in the settings Nick Janaway and Sarah Owen bring to these traditional songs recorded live in Bristol in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Mairearad & Anna
Opening with the playfully jazzy intro of ‘Tatties & Ham’ and concluding with the stirring pipe march of ‘New Claes,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2012
