Reviews
Timbuktu
During her first spell on World Circuit, Oumou Sangaré made some of the finest albums to come out of West...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Storymap
Lau’s Kris Drever and Salsa Celtica’s Éamonn Coyne got together to record Storymap in Scotland last autumn, with guests including...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Mar Afora
Over the last three decades, Portuguese jazz singer (and former black-belt aikido athlete) Maria João, and Brazilian singer-songwriter Guinga have...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: July/2016
Huam
A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020
Åkerö
Maria Kalaniemi & Timo Alakotila
Two of Finland's most outstanding musicians celebrated 20 years of playing together last year. Kalaniemi and Alakotila were students when...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2012
Mogoya
The last time this reviewer interviewed Oumou Sangaré was in January 2009. She was about to release the album Seya...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Teiliwr: Tailor
An Aberystwyth-based trio brought together in 2014 by, so they say, a common interest in ‘old songs of madness, love,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Chaos Theories
Hell hath no fury like a brassy sextet from Ottawa when riled. This, their ninth album since getting together in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2019
Cabaret of Death
Unfortunately I haven’t yet seen the Polish drama documentary Cabaret of Death, which won a Prix Italia last year. Directed...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2016
