Reviews
Amplexo
What does it currently take to stand out from the massive crowd of new fadistas that keeps growing by the...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022
Last
Last begins with ‘Gan to the Kye’, a Northumbrian complaint about the local men taken by rebels, leaving only the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2011
Murmurations
The album art for Murmurations is a work of some genius – each individual cover features a unique image, in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
We Will Never Die
This is Tuva’s one and only Albert Kuvezin’s first Yat-Kha studio album since 2010’s excellent Poets and Lighthouses. Right from...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2021
UnVeiled
Sabina Rakcheyeva is a ferociously talented violinist from Azerbaijan. She studied at the Baku Academy of Music, at the Juilliard...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Blackbird Returns
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of their 2013 album Blackbird, New Zealand Māori soul-dub-funk octet Fat Freddy’s Drop have put together...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2023
Take What You Want
This Sheffield via Jamaica MC has a background in jazz fusion, being the frontman of TC & The Groove Family...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings Vol 2
Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz has long been one of the great record collectors and has reissued much ‘lost’ music....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2013
Black &White: Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum
In 2007 and 2009, Dust to D igital released volumes one and two of Art of the Field Recording by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011
In the Echo: Field Recordings from Earlsfort Terrace
Proof that Irish traditional music is the most amenable of genres, In the Echo brings together leading figures in the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2021
