Reviews

Rooftop Sessions

Dreamers' Circus

The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Supertraditionellt Material

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This album is a breaking open of the treasure chest of the Caprice Records archive, curated by Swedish folk musicians...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2020

Bombyx Mori

3, 14

This is an extremely elegant and accomplished record. But that should come as no surprise as it features three extremely...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020

Kudu Bisa Kudu

Balungan

The French drummer Guigou Chenevier was a founder member of the prog-punk-jazz pioneers Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973. Here he...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/September/2022

Colonised

Eardrum

London-based rhythm masters Eardrum have returned with their fourth full-length release, and what a return they’ve made. The collective was...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2015

Azerbaijani Gitara

Rüstəm Quliyev

As well as a hot contender for this year’s Most Charmingly Naff Cover Photo award, the inside of this album...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2021

Amser

Fernhill

Fernhill are a musical jackdaw: the band fly far and wide over the historical and cultural landscape of Wales –...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2014

Chaos

René Aubry

The French multi-instrumentalist's 26th album begins with the sound of rain and distant thunder, out of which comes a tremulous...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017

Africa Express Presents… Terry Riley's in C Mali

Various Artists

Half a century ago, the American minimalist composer Terry Riley gave the world premiere of his composition In C, an...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2015

Sotaque

Budiño

The Galician gaita, like its Celtic forebears the Scottish bagpipes and Irish uilleann pipes, produces rough-edged, high-pitched melodies that dance...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sept/2013