Reviews

Decade

Fidil

This new effort from the Irish string trio sees them return with an impressive display of fiddle music based around...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2020

L’amour Fou

Françoise Hardy

It’s been 50 years, incredibly, since Françoise Hardy’s first single introduced a demurely beautiful Parisienne to the top ranks of...

Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: June/2013

Caçador de Infância

Grazie Wirtti & Matias Arriazu

ECM's Carmo imprint is named after the birthplace of one of the parent company's most prolific artists, Egberto Gismonti. After...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Grind

Treacherous Orchestra

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

Laissez Passer

TootArd

TootArd have finally released their debut album, Laissez Passer, seven years after forming the band. Although the members of TootArd...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War

Show of Hands with Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton

There will be few finer artistic tributes to the cataclysmic experience of World War I in this centenary year than...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Alma

Carminho

It’s hard to say why Carminho’s second effort seems a little pale alongside her debut, Fado from 2009. Perhaps the...

Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Aboogi

Imarhan

All aboard the Touareg camel train once again for Imarhan’s third album Aboogi – and a serene, timeless trip across...

Reviewed by Nigel Willamson in issue: March/2022

Anticipation

Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter

Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...

Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: May/2021

Mezclatotäl

Komasi

The one thing you cannot accuse Komasi of is a lack of ambition. Respectively from France, Burkina Faso and Chile,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2021