Reviews
Up River Overseas
Old Salt are a six-piece collective of musicians from the US, Belgium, Sweden and Scotland who first came together at...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016
Beach Daze
The Island Girls are accordionist Karen Tweed and piano and fiddle player Margaret Robertson, MBE. The Islands are Orkney, where...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/September/2022
11th Street, Sekondi
It is refreshing to know that the career of highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist Gyedu-Blay Ambolley appears to be on a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Arctic Spirit
Arctic Spirit is a beautifully produced CD (and booklet) of contemporary interpretations, improvisations and meditations on traditional Sakha (Yakut) cultural...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Apr/May/2012
Corner of the Dub
Solus3's Corner of the World was a complex, layered set of pieces that owed much of its effect to its...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013
3G
Angus Lyon is one of Scotland's most inventive, energetic and versatile musical figures. He's a terrific accordionist, known for his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Ear Snacks
That this San Francisco-based band records and performs with numerous like-minded guests suggests the current good health of country rock...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2023
Portuguesa
Pedal steel and electric guitar are not exactly the first instruments that pop to mind when we speak of fado....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2023
Nowhere and Everywhere
Paul Smith, of Maxïmo Park, met Rachel Unthank, of The Unthanks, when both played an Africa Express concert. Collaboration between...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2023
Before I Knew What Had Begun I Had Already Lost
For Jon Wilks’ fourth album he has broadened the sonic palette of 2021's spare Up the Cut, adding Jackie Oates’...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2023
