Reviews
Nowhere and Everywhere
Paul Smith, of Maxïmo Park, met Rachel Unthank, of The Unthanks, when both played an Africa Express concert. Collaboration between...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2023
Les Belgicains – Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70
When Nikiforos Cavvadias arrived in Belgium in the early 60s he was already a famed producer, having run the Ngoma...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2024
Aguilas and Cobras
Stateside Latin funk often comes with psychedelic guitar chords, sexy vocals, big slabs of Yankee rock weirdness, and hot rhythms...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
Live and Raw
Raw indeed. And a lot of that rawness is courtesy of Dennis Wint, Invisible System's frontman, best described as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
Shadow and Light
There’s something pleasingly old-fashioned about John Doyle’s second solo outing. Arriving six years after Wayward Son saw him step out...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Revel and Rhyme
This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2020
Jazz and All That
You could treat the surprise success of the Sachal Studios Orchestra’s version of Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’ either as a...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Our Earth and Water
Georgian polyphony is one of the great vocal traditions of the world. Complex harmonies, laced with dissonance, clash and resolve...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Between Wind and Water
There's always been a natural joyfulness in the sound the String Sisters make together. Right from their first performance at...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018
Cats, Dogs and Ghosts
Kottarashky is Nikola Gruev, a young Bulgarian composer and producer whose 2009 debut album Opa Hey! demonstrated a fluid,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
