Reviews
Black Peak
The duo that is Xylouris White – Cretan lute player (and Greek music royalty) George Xylouris and Melbourne-born drummer (and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2016
Join Forces
The rousing harmonies are spot-on, the melodies are gorgeous, the bluesy banjo playing is nifty and there's some excellent old-time...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Fun An Altn Klezmer Heft: Beautiful Music from Old Manuscripts
Susi Evans is a dynamic clarinettist from Shekoyokh and this is her second duo album with Hungarian-born, German-based accordionist Szilvia...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2023
Salvavidas de Hielo
Is it possible that Drexler has found the perfect way of describing his music with the title of his latest...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2018
Hetkessä
Finland is a country of many outstanding accordionists and Teija Niku is one of the newer figures on the scene....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
Tangos
Rubén Blades is good at lots of things: singing, acting, writing salsa hits, being Panama's tourism minister, campaigning (against Sun...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Gamelan of Java Volume One: Kraton Kasunanan
Not content with overseeing Felmay's series of recordings, John Noise Manis – aka the Italian composer Giovanni Sciarrino (manis is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
Arrogance, Ignorance & Greed
The songs and music of Show of Hands – the West Country duo Steve Knightley and Phil Beer – create...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Kadior Demb
Thiès, Senegal’s third largest city, is a sleepy town at a major railway junction and home to one of the...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Fallow Ground
Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021
