Reviews
Victor Menace!!!
Victor Menace sounds like a cartoon debt collector but is in fact Ruth Theodore’s new band. Her previous album, White...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Flight
Afro Celt Sound System's 20th anniversary comeback, 2016's The Source, was a big success, winning them a Songlines Music Award...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Chante Adonis
Both the singer Abed Azrié and the poet Adonis (the pen-name of Ali Ahmad Said Esber) are typical of a...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2012
Some Strange Country
Crooked Still, the most exciting bluegrass bandcurrently on the American scene, are a groupof five who met at the music...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2011
You Etched Your Face in Mine
There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Jūrėse
With its New Agey, Celtic feel, at times Jūrėse (meaning ‘In the Lagoon’, referencing his home region) sounds almost like...
Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Duo
Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018
Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout
The Russian-born, New York-based DJ Vadim returns with another fast-paced reggae volume under the pseudonym Dubcatcher, this time pulling in...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2016
Aimez Ces Airs
DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson
Now this album could well be lighting up summer 2019; its mix of Afrobeat rhythms and reggae vocals – with...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019
