Reviews
Neskrotený
Hrdza (Rust) is a Slovakia-based band inspired by the East European folk traditions, consisting of Slavomír Gibarti (vocals, guitars), Susanna...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Sulle Rive del Tango
Tango has been described as the oldest world music: its dance rhythm colonised half the world before 1920. This double...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
The premise of Industrial Strength Bluegrass is an intriguing one. In the 1950s and 60s, destitute migrants from the backwoods...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
L'infinit
Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2021
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2016
Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton
This wonderful recording of Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton performing in New York in 1962 begins with a short, sweet...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Apocalypse Across the Sky
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
The story of Jajouka in the West begins with William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, who were their conduit to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Tiger Run
Nyolo's eighth album in a solo career that began in 1996 with Tribu may just be her most cohesive and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Money Isn’t Everything
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
They may be based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra have fallen for old-time Americana hook,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2013
