Reviews
Cerdd Dannau
Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2014
Who's Feeling Young Now?
Their cover version of ‘Kid A’ makes it explicit, but the Punch Brothers’ indie-band influences are immediately obvious right from...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Songs of Horaman
It’s hard to believe Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian was only 17 when he recorded this debut album in 2019. For sure,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2023
Off the Floor
Welcome to the legendary dance halls of Canada's Cape Breton where, once a favoured fiddler like Wendy MacIsaac starts a...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2015
Slečena Koža
Slovene singer Brina Vogelnik and her band have been quietly doing very good work in extending the musical language of...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013
Róisín ReImagined
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Irish Chamber Orchestra
Breathing new life into old, Róisín ReImagined takes the ancient tradition of sean nós singing, filters it through new arrangements...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2022
Tell My Sister
They were the unlikeliest of pop stars: two sisters from the ancient Laurentian moun¬tain range north¬west of Montreal, plain-spoken homebodies...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Almah
Bassist Avishai Cohen is one of those rare jazz musicians who is comfortable playing across multiple genres, and he has...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2014
Live in America
Over the last few years, Oumar Konaté has been making his mark on the Mali guitar scene, his guitar-bass-drums trio...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017
