Reviews
Momentum
The third album from these three Flemish brothers finds them building impressively on the success of previous offerings Modus Operandi...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2017
Sven Nyhus Kvintett
The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017
Trail of Tales
This is the fifth album released by the award-winning Canadian acoustic roots quintet since 2000. Trail of Tales features a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2017
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition
In 1965, Who's That Knocking? by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard demolished forever a de facto gender barrier within the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2022
The Alaev Family & Tamir Muskat
The Alaev Family are something of a discovery. Originally from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, this Central Asian Jewish family...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012
Beaucoup De Piment!
The principal styles of this debut are spunky Afrobeat and tepid jazz fusion, with the emphasis, disappointingly, on the latter....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014
Owiny Sigoma Band
Having trawled through leftfield Brazil and captured the cutting edge in Cuba, clubland's favourite diminutive DJ/producer Gilles Peterson has now...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011
Uneven Sky
This is a hugely ambitious and timely double album from the New York-based, Syrian-born virtuoso clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh....
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: June/2019
Our Garden Needs its Flowers
A very welcome reissue of an oddity from the Ivory Coast that was a huge regional hit when issued in...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2018
Set Me Free
Dwayne Dopsie is the son of the late Rockin’ Dopsie, a Louisiana Creole accordionist who, via recording several albums for...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2021
