Reviews
Far Better Days
Comprising Steve Byrne, Mark Dunlop, Fiona Hunter and Mike Vass, Malinky have, over the last 15 years, confidently established themselves...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2015
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
Half Day Road
Not for nothing is Liz Carroll routinely referred to as a fiddler-composer, because almost immediately after they're written, the Chicago-born...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2019
Grit
It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since Martyn Bennett's Grit was first released. The last album recorded before...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2014
Tempo
It’s eight years since the release of Costa Félix’s last disc. Admittedly, his previous album, Fados de Amor, was a...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2020
Birl-esque
Birl – meaning to dance or, in relation to the fiddle, a rapid percussive shivering of the bow – is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2018
Gala de la Chanson Francarabe
This wonderfully savoury compilation comes from a field still relatively little known in world music circles, in spite of the...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2017
Ndzi Teke Riendzo
Last year Honest Jon's released a well-received compilation titled Shangaan Electro. The album focused on a synthesized style of ancient...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2011
