Reviews
Bondeko
Back in 2004, Cameroonian multi-instrumentalist Richard Bona, Congolese griot Lokua Kanza and the French-Caribbean musical adventurer Gerald Toto convened to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018
A Pocket of Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy
From the first note to the final, pulsing heartbeat, this is not merely an album of songs but a full...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sweet Visitor
She's got a pedigree going back to two superb albums with Eliza Carthy in the early 90s, and with partner...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
The Spirit of the Mountains
Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli
The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Vagrant Stanzas
The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Escapology
As a bansuri (flute) rises from a bed of flamenco guitar on album opener ‘Escapology’, any listeners who last heard...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Mountain Meeting
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Some records are special from the very first moment. Mountain Meeting opens with a single fiddle tune, a burbling figure...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2018
Long Gone Out West Blues
Long Gone Out West Blues is a worthy sequel to Pharis and Jason Romero’s first effort, A Passing Glimpse. It...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2013
