Reviews
Spirit Rising: Live From Guest Street
It’s surprising that it has taken Kidjo 20 years to release her first live-in-concert album, for she’s long been one...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
Hello Cabo Verde
‘Fazê Gat’, the opening track on this rather lovely album, finds Adê singing gently in a duet with fellow Cape...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
Hether Blether
Named after one of the vanishing islands from his native Orkney's folklore, the final album in composer Erland Cooper's trilogy...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2020
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Not so much world music as otherworldly, the reissue of the album Brian Eno produced in 1980 for the American...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Love Songs
Opening with piano and a flourish of fiddle on instrumental track, ‘Summer Daylight Winter Darkness’, Bella Hardy’s tenth album is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Dance Me to Heaven
Victoria Klewin & The True Tones
Funded by fans and daydream believers comes this first album from a tight little unit currently making waves in the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016
Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s
A decade or so ago, this album would have been one among dozens. With the decline of the CD trade,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
The Brightest Path
Patsy Reid is an in-demand fiddler who's been heard with Breabach, Kathryn Tickell and The Treacherous Orchestra, among others. She...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2014
Yonder Green Grove
The four women who make up The Norfolk Broads first met in the alto section of the Trad Academy Sea...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2022
Puro Tayta Shanti
From the first moments of this compilation, it's impossible not to feel transported to another plane. The repetitive, hammering bass...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2019
