Reviews
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
Live and Raw
Raw indeed. And a lot of that rawness is courtesy of Dennis Wint, Invisible System's frontman, best described as a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
The Rough Guide to Celtic Music
On the plus side, this is a substantially more satisfying compilation than the now-deleted 2005 collection of the same name....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2014
Live at TUSK 2019
Recorded at the eclectic TUSK Festival in Gateshead, this live set captures the last night of the first ever UK...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
So Calypso!
After the triumph of 2016's Far From Home, which went platinum in France and won her the Artist of the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2018
Tulum: A Sound from the Black Sea
The Black Sea region is like a different country compared to the rest of Turkey. It's misty, mountainous and cool,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker recently performed their new album in full in London, with a chamber ensemble and guests...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
