Reviews
Napot Holdat Csillagot
Pál is a new voice on the traditional Hungarian music scene, endorsed by the Hagyományok Hása (Hungarian Heritage House), the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015
Les Objets Trouvés
Scottish singer and fiddler Kate Young is an increasingly familiar figure. She was part of the award-winning Songs of Separation...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: August/2017
Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako
What a joy it must have been to see and hear Les Ambassadeurs in the mid-70s, playing in the motel...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Illusion & Doubt
Like a backfiring, smoke-belching, fluid-dripping jalopy from a bygone era, The Dead South pop, chuff and wheeze their way across...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2018
Noble Stranger
Nuala Kennedy, Irish singer and flute player, adopted Scots lass and now a New Yorker is not an artist to...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Fandango: Provença Sessions
Kepa Junkera & the Melonious Quartet
Everything is suddenly alright with the world when an album comes along and blows your mind: especially when it's from...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2012
Genius Loci 1: White Peak
Instrumental duo fiddler Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger like to let things flow. At the heart of The Ciderhouse...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/February/2022
Homenaje a El Carmen
Los Hermanos Ballumbrosio are a family music group from El Carmen in Chincha, a cotton-producing province around 200km south of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022
Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes, Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia 1968-1978
It's become fashionable – or at least SEO-savvy – to give records epic subtitles. This album's subtitle is ‘The Sound...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017
Dusk Notes
Supriya Nagarajan & Duncan Chapman
Drawing upon synaesthesia and dusk ragas, Dusk Notes is Mumbai-born Nagarajan's debut album made in collaboration with sound artist Duncan...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: March/2021
