Reviews
Simigwa
On the opening track of this album, which was originally released in 1975, the Ghanaian bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley recites a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
Melodic Melange
Anders Hagberg & Ahmad Al Khatib
Ahmad Al Khatib's last CD, Sabîl, was one of the most impressive solo oud recordings to have appeared in recent...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015
Up
Two decades into a career that began by defining the Asian Underground scene, Karsh Kale's work has continued to develop...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: May/2016
Chiaroscuro
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus
A collaboration on many levels, this album brings the innovative instrument-building skills of Garry Kvistad, the multiphonic singing abilities of...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2016
Cold Light
The Bideford-based folk duo's last album celebrated Devonian postman poet Edward Capern, but with Cold Light the two fiddle players,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2020
First Farewell
This is a remarkable album by a singersongwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and writer who grows more impressive as the years go...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2021
Resistance
The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2015
What If
With its searingly fast tempo and hard-swinging arrangement, ‘Cavebop’ sets the bar high for What If, which is perhaps the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
The Peacock's Feathers
Established stars in their native Germany, five-piece Fleadh's last album, 2013's The Cleggan Bay Disaster, was festooned with awards, picking...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2016
Adeline
John Showman, Chris Coole, Adrian Gross, Sam Allison, Mark Kilianski
Last March, a quintet of old-timey/bluegrass/Americana string specialists gathered at a cottage on the shores of Beaver Lake in the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
