Reviews
Cold Sea
Cold Sea is the first solo release from Oisin Leech, who may be more familiar as one half of Irish...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
Arcs & Rivers
Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou
I’ve encountered the bouzouki in a number of different contexts: rebetika, laïko, Irish traditional music and various eastern-Mediterranean crossover ensembles,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2024
Aden
Gwilym Bowen Rhys, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Bethel, north Wales, is hailed as a rising star in Welsh folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2025
Vol 2
The Awesome Tapes from Africa label started by reissuing Vol 3 by Malian singer Nahawa in 2011, and followed it...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: February/March/2025
Macaronesia Vol. 1
Entre Ilhas is one of those projects that must be praised for its historical and conceptual relevance, being potentially the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2025
2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
Lost Tracks: Accra to Addis
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Founded and curated by DJ Afrocat, Lost Tracks Records joins the ever-growing African rare-groove reissue scene with their first release,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2026
Far From Home
This Pacific Northwest Irish and Scottish trad band centres around the beguiling flute and whistle playing of Hanz Araki, a...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2026
Monastir
There is quite some story and a lot of work behind this album. American-born Sarah Aroeste comes from a Sephardic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021
