Reviews
The Wages
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
The initial signs are good – a three-piece country blues outfit from the back hills of Indiana with a clear...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
Con Sentimiento
Born in just 2002 in Güines (just south of Havana), Noslen Noel has already made a name for himself as...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: October/2021
Lay Your Dark Low
This four-piece really do knock out a great song. They’re tight, confident and manage to make folk music sound contemporary...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2014
Music from Balochistan
The picture on the inside of this CD features the band Padik in front of a mountain valley that looks...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2014
Mistral
Despite an opening salvo of tracks featuring some irresistible vocals, this fourth record from Italy-based quartet La Frontera is an...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Migration
Maryam Ershadi Yusefzadeh & Thomas Nordlund
The core of the US-based ensemble on this album is the singer Maryam Yusefzadeh and guitarist Thomas Nordland, amid bass,...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
RAMU
Although it's named after the Random Access Musical Universe (RAMU) sampling database that he created, what former Grateful Dead drummer...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2018
Nordic Raga
Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg
The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2018
Sleeping Giants
Formed by violinist/bandleader Olivia Moore, Unfurl is a Manchester-based collective that draws upon contemporary jazz and Indian classical music, partially...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2022
