Reviews
Otherlands:ONE
American fiddler Casey Driessen spent nine months travelling the world, meeting, listening and playing with local musicians until COVID-19 eventually...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021
Entre l’Érable et le Cocotier
Although born in Montréal, singer and multi-instrumentalist Pascale LeBlanc grew up in Haiti, her mother’s homeland. Her songs reflect much...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2023
Three Bells
Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge & Rob Ickes
Take three of the greatest dobro players on the planet, toss them together in a studio with a playlist that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Pita Parka Pt. II: Nim Egduf
Formed in 2016, Dun-Dun Band are a sprawling 10-piece ensemble from Toronto with members recruited from various jazz-adjacent groups and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2025
UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers
Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan of Transglobal Underground have fashioned an ambitious pan-European project around the banner of UNITE...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2010
Sóc Poeta
This album from Alba Asensi, from Alicante, Spain, is her second release, following 2019's Semillas. She also founded Feminarum Aures,...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: May/2023
Port de Taipana
This second studio album from the Belgian duo of Florian De Schepper and Anouk Sanczuk has a sense of joyous...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2020
Ođđa áigodat
Solju is the name of a new project from the Finnish Sámi joiker Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter, Hilda Länsman....
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
