Reviews
The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
The Slovenian trio Širom are back with their fourth album fuelled by the search for a reconnection with the remote...
Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: June/2022
Temple of the New Sun
This is a collection of songs originally released on cassette in the 80s; it's intriguing trying to imagine what the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021
Klezmer from the New World
This is a clarinet and accordion duo, Susi Evans being one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day, playing...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2021
Where the Rain is Stored
Neda Mohamadpour, Mehdi Rostami, Isa Farah, Dhaivat Jani
Link Music Lab promotes Persian traditional music with experimental releases that explore fusions with other traditions and cross-cultural collaborations. In...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2026
The World Turned Upside Down: Rosselsongs 1960¬2010
Here are 73 songs lasting almost five hours, written over half a century. This is a life’s work. It’s the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
Welsh acoustic finger stylist Gwenifer Raymond's second album, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020), saw a huge leap forward from...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: September/2025
Adama Drame
A long-term champion of West Africa’s loudest hand drum, the djembé master Adama Dramé here gets his early 90s solo...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986
Issa Juma & the Super Wanyika Stars
This is another in a series of authoritative collections of golden-age rumba issued by Sterns. Whilst their recent anthologies have...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010
More Notes from the Field
The Devon-based duo have been together – in the gaps between their burgeoning solo careers – since 2014, with an...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021
The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
Premiered at Celtic Connections 2020, this evocative project grew out of the fascination of Orkney-born musician and composer Graham Rorie...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
