Reviews
Le Bal Brotto Lopez
The duo of Cyrille Brotto (accordion) and Guillaume Lopez (voice, flute and fifes) were energetic contributors to the French Occitan-language...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: July/2013
Ar Lagad-Bleiz
Breton dance quartet Spontus are renowned for the proficiency of their playing. In their music, violin, bass, acoustic guitar and...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: August/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
Kertünk Alatt
Hungarian band Besh o Drom have been together now in one form or another for over a decade, and in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
Three great fiddlers and three great fiddle traditions. Olav Luksengård Mjelva is from Norway, Anders Hall from Sweden and Kevin...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar
Canada-based sound recordist Charles Brooks has spent more than 20 years recording in the field and this is the second...
Reviewed by Mike Gavin in issue: April/2019
Fretless
Soumik Datta is Britain’s brilliant young sarod (lute) star. He gave a stunning concert supporting Shivkumar Sharma at the Darbar...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Build Something Better
Grace Petrie is a Leicester-born singer-songwriter and musical activist who sounds better, and angrier, with every new album. She started...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2024
Hayvan Gibi
The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020
Urban Myths
Swiss/English/Ashkenazi/Sephardic violinist Marc Crofts and his Klezmer Ensemble made up of clarinet, accordion and double bass make for the classic...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2025
