Reviews
Shell Story
Described as a ‘sister companion release’ to last year's The Devil Makes Three, four of the seven tracks on this...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015
Night + Day
With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021
Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall
Roberts has released a number of albums devoted to traditional songs over the course of the past two decades, 2010's...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2023
Zam Groove: Music from Zambia
A short LP release of seven tracks taken from the excellent SWP box sets Luangwa to Livingstone (see previous) and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Rearrange My Heart
Little wonder that the celebrated American roots banjo player Béla Fleck was so taken with this pan-American quartet that he...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020
Bottle Bank Band
Made up of four Tyneside fiddlers – Sophy Ball, Chloe Jones, David Jones and Stewart Hardy – and taking their...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Golden Beirut: New Sounds From Lebanon
Two years ago, I spent a week in Beirut lecturing to journal¬ism students. In the evenings, after classes were done,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Pop Songs for Elk
As one of the new breed of edgy Americana acts, such as Elephant Revival, Pokey LaFarge or Joy Kills Sorrow,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2015
Romeo Scaccia meets Kočani Orkestar
The notion of a collaboration between an Italian pianist and film composer and a Macedonian brass band, might inspire anticipation...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Beautiful World
The Namibian-born Elemotho (stage name of Gaalelekwe Richardo Mosimane) grew up listening to his elders telling stories around a campfire...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2017
