Reviews
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016
Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield
Regarded as one of the most innovative Scottish musicians of his time on the back of albums such as 1998...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Viajando Com O Som
Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa
Widely regarded as Brazil's most preternaturally gifted musician, Hermeto Pascoal has covered an incredible amount of creative ground in his...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2017
Japanese Traditional Music: Koto and Shamisen, 1941
Despite the crackling sound quality, World Arbiter’s third reissue of early Japanese 78s is your only choice for a single-CD...
Reviewed by David Hughes in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Divinities of the Earth and the Waters
Impish laughter, ethereal percussion and a lone flute open this pan-Slavic album, described – unusually – as the narrative to...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2018
Canti & Musica: Anthology of Profane Songs and Music
On Corsica the human voice reigns supreme, rooted in a polyphonic tradition revived on a wave of nationalism, the riacquistu...
Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Eva
An Algarve-born singer of Cape Verdean extraction and a founding member of the MTV award-winning group Nu Soul Family, Dino...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2014
Songs of the Spanish Civil War Vols 1 & 2
Just as Western countries have today banned their subjects from travelling to fight in Syria, in the 1930s the US...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
Belem & the MeKanics
Belem are a duo, consisting of diatonic accordionist Didier Laloy and cellist Kathy Adam. Laloy met Walter Hus, who provides...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
