Reviews
Family, Friends & Heroes
This 14-track extended family reunion kicks off with Frank Solivan and Del McCoury harmonising on a twanged-up version of Roy...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2016
Lost & Found
Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023
Red Hot + Fela
This is the latest in the series of albums that the Red Hot organisation have released to raise money and...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Windrose
A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017
Dawn Chorus
The solo studio project of multi-instrumentalist composer and producer Joe Acheson, Dawn Chorus is by turns lyrical, expansive, indulgent and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017
Zhoor
Hermes Records has been producing a wide variety of remarkable recordings for years now. The label's artists range from the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2011
Grind
The second album from the 11-piece Treacherous Orchestra sees the boys at their raucous best. Grind reflects the band's new,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2015
Out of Sight
The Polish trio Kroke formed back in 1992 and started playing Jewish klezmer in their home city of Krakow –...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
Joku Raja Rakkaudesakin
Joku Raja Rakkaudesakin (Even Love Should Have Its Limits) – a phrase the Finnish folk duo of violinist Kukka Lehto...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2025
Queens & Kings
This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2018
