Reviews
Far Driven Sun
Bergamo-based Buck Curran spent ages tracking down a Stefan Sobell guitar he sold years back and has celebrated the reunion...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: January/2026
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
Moreïne/Déclives
It proves very difficult to tell what is electronic and what isn’t on La Tène’s cavernous and insistent new record,...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026
Curandero
The US/Mexican frontier is a hotspot of hope and anguish, drugs and guns, rednecks and refugees. Orkesta Mendoza, formed by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020
Pipers
I’m a big fan of the clarinet. Of all the wind instruments it has the widest and most varied range...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2020
IYA: Songs for the Mothers
For their fifth album, London's Afro-Cuban community choir build on their tradition of performing songs to the Orishas (Yoruba deities)...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2023
Maghreb Lyon
The role of Paris and Marseille in the production of North African music in France is well documented: less so...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2014
Uhamiaji
When a press release states that an album will redefine the boundaries of whatever style it purports to represent, you...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017
The Macalla Suite
Composed to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Rooney’s The Macalla Suite is a compendium of folk...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2017
