Reviews
Natural
Nicola Conte & Stefania Dipierro
For a brief period in the 1960s, Brazil was at the epicentre of all things musically chic and sophisticated. On...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2016
Smoke Behind the Clouds
Smoke Behind the Clouds taps the deep, rich reservoir of the old-time American songbook. Led by East Tennessee native Joseph...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2017
Romance(s)
After releasing Contos de Fados (a wordplay on ‘fairy tales’, replacing fairies with fados), Aldina Duarte decided to take time...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2016
North Star Calling
When listening to Leela Gilday's latest album, North Star Calling, one is instantly transported to a vast land of powerful...
Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: May/2020
It Wasn’t Hard to Love You
Is this the last album we will hear from Fanfare Ciocarlia? The world’s foremost Balkan brass band are not retiring...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021
Ephemera
All four musicians of Lingua Franca are graduates of the Rotterdam Conservatoire (CODARTS) and two are now teachers there, specialising...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017
Wild Games
There's a rugged earthiness and authenticity about Vedan Kolod. The name in old Russian means ‘Prophetic Tree’, although as a...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2020
Close Enough to Hear
With their previous two albums, 2017's Onwards and 2019's enchanting City on a Hill, the warmth, precision and virtuosity of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023
Celilo Falls
Born in a small town in Oregon, a child of the Pacific Northwest whose Pentecostal family traces its lineage back...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
