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Review of Brazilika

Brazilika

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

If you’re into Brazilian jazz then you will most certainly know about Far Out Recordings, the London-based label that have...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Huam

Huam

Salt House

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020

Review of Tidens Ekko

Tidens Ekko

Vingefang

GO’ Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

Vingefang are a duo comprising Lene Høst and Miriam Ariana, who are both former students of Scandinavian folk music at...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2018

Review of Tukki

Tukki

Tukkiman

Tukki Art & Entertainment

Rating: ★★★

In the Senegalese Wolof language, tukki means ‘travel.’ In 2006, Tukkiman left his native city of Dakar for Paris; since...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2016

Review of It's Still Autumn

It's Still Autumn

Kayhan Kalhor & the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio

Top of the World

Kepera Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The collaboration between Iranian kamancheh spike-fiddle master Kayhan Kalhor and the Dutch baroque-jazz ensemble Rembrandt Frerichs Trio has been a...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Flamenco Mediterráneo

Flamenco Mediterráneo

Carlos Coronado

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Carlos Coronado likes to establish a musical connection with landscape. Having been born in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia,...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024

Review of Hajda!

Hajda!

Hajda Banda

Top of the World

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★

This is the debut of a new band focussing on the traditional music of Polesia, a region of eastern Poland,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2024

Review of Netherbow

Netherbow

Saltfishforty

Cellar Records CRSFF0310

Rating: ★★★★

Orkney duo Saltfishforty is comprised of Douglas Montgomery on fiddle, viola and mandolin, with Brian Cromarty on vocals, guitar, mandola...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010

Review of An Den Dey Made Tae

An Den Dey Made Tae

Ross & Ryan Couper

Couper Records

Rating: ★★★

Growing up as part of a famous Shetland musical family, Ross Couper, fiddle player with the Peatbog Faeries, and his...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2021

Review of Hommage

Hommage

Itamar Erez & The Adama Ensemble

itamarerez.com

Rating: ★★★

Erez is an Israeli-born Canadian composer, guitarist and pianist who recently moved back to Israel. There he established his ensemble...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2011

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