Reviews
1783
With his latest album, 1783, the Nova Scotian hip-hop/R&B artist Lance Sampson (Aquakultre), continues his exploration and explication of a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2026
Eternal Birth
Eliza Marshall has enjoyed a remarkable career. Go-to flautist for many leading folk and pop musicians and orchestras, she’s played...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2026
Bass & Mandolin
Classical bass player Edgar Meyer and bluegrass mandolinist Chris Thile first teamed up on a 2008 duets album that fused...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Legends & Legacies
In the world of accordion-driven Tejano conjunto music, or Tex-Mex, the Grammy-award winners Flaco Jiménez and Max Baca are both...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2014
Naming & Blaming
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Paley & Son
Octogenarian Tom Paley was a member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the pioneering American folk revival bands...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Slow Music
On this album of gentle dinner jazz crooning, Joyce gathers together a selection of session musician stalwarts who include many...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2011
Up Through the Woods
From the first to the last note of the second album from this Derbyshire duo – guitarist Gibb and fiddler...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Suomiklezmer2
Hop on the last metro out of Helsinki city centre. Nighttime revelries fade away as the doors slide closed and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/2024
Hangszín
Mónika Lakatos and the Gipsy Voices
The Oláh Roma of Hungary are a minority within a minority, having moved to Hungary and other areas of Central...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2021
