Reviews
The Albino Peacock
With a fun mix of clarinets, bouzouki, kaval, violins, drums, bass, electric guitar, autoharp, dulcimer and recorders, Birmingham-based Bonfire Radicals...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2016
Beyond the Trance
Iness Mezel's third album kicks off with the kind of Justin Adams guitar riff you'd find him using as Robert...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2011
The Silver Sun
Although recorded in less than a single day, there is nothing rushed or hurried about Eamon O’Leary’s characteristically laid-back third...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2021
The Color Line
With recent events in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement questioning whether the Civil Rights campaign of more...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
The Other Shore
Few artists are as cosmopolitan as Marta Topferova. Born and partly raised in Czechoslovakia, this 30-something singer-songwriter emigrated to the...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
180° The Remixes
Mulele Matondo's most recent record with Kongo Dia Ntotila was released earlier this year. Entitled 360°, it was a truly...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
The Peacock's Feathers
Established stars in their native Germany, five-piece Fleadh's last album, 2013's The Cleggan Bay Disaster, was festooned with awards, picking...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2016
The Mystery Inch
Twelve instrumentals, five pairs of hands, and about as much transportative fun and joyful tune-making as you can imagine: welcome...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
The Beautiful Road
Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly
Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh and fellow musician and film-maker Myles O’Reilly's first outing together on disc, 2021's Tá Go...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2023
The Kindest One
Jorga Mesfin is a comparatively new kid on the Ethio-jazz block. The Ethiopian saxophonist also happens to be Mulatu Astatke’s...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2024
