Reviews
Clareia
When Bebel Gilberto released Tanto Tempo in 2000, she almost single-handedly invented electronic bossa nova. Being the daughter of bossa's...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: August/2017
Journey Through Latin America
Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013
Black Horses
The Midnight Fairground is the magical conceptual world of singer, Mae Karthauser. Hailing from the sleepy banks of the Dart...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Watershed
This duo have made a big impact on the British folk scene – so much so that it feels strange...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015
An Irish Viola/Vióla Gaelach
Séamus McGuire with Steve Cooney
Novelty in a musical tradition as ancient as Ireland’s is not easily come by. But this unexpected pairing of viola...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2022
Hedûr: Solace of Time
If you have seen Aynur in Crossing the Bridge, the successful 2005 documentary by Fatih Akin about music in Istanbul,...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2020
Welcome to the Family
Bosnian guitarist Igor Sekulović grew up in Banja Luka, loving the sevdah music his mother and aunts sang. He ended...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
Lucky Star
Royal Academy-trained, an acclaimed music educator for kids, a flugelhorn player and from England, Barbara Snow should not be as...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2019
