Reviews
Stately Mansion
Stately is the word to describe the music on Kate Lissaeur’s third album, which features no less than 17 songs...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013
To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings from Istanbul
One of many surprisingly delightful Middle Eastern releases of the last two years was Honest Jon’s compilation of remastered Iraqi...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2010
Casa Guilhermina
Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023
African Blues
A dozen years ago the Putumayo label issued one of the first compilations to explore the rich connections between African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Accordion Samurai
Perhaps in response to endless gags about their instrument being anti-social — ‘a gentleman is a man who can play...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Handmade Life
To illustrate the lyrical and incisive dissection of public ills and private graces that is Handmade Life, the album‘s artwork...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010
Kvite Fuglar
Kvite Fuglar (White Bird) is accompanied, in the liner notes, by a short statement from Unni Boksasp: ‘I've written all...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2013
Nino Biton
Nino Biton is not merely a retro student of the past masters of Andalusian music. The 59-year-old Jerusalemite oud (lute)...
Reviewed by Barry Davis in issue: October/2012
Mark The Hard Earth
Kris Drever is a man of many talents: one part of Anglo–Scots powerhouse Lau, one part of Drever McCusker Woomble,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Joy of Living
Ewan MacColl wrote the song Jackie Oates has chosen as the title-track of her seventh album when he realised his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2018
