Reviews
Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa Con Estilo – Dance Floor Gems from the Vaults: 1950s-1980s
Even better, certainly in terms of scope, is Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa Con Estilo –Dance Floor Gems from the...
Reviewed by in issue: June/2024
Tomorrow Held
Opening with minimal, subliminal guitar, very quiet and very still, an expressive fiddle soon eases in, the two shapeshifting around...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025
For One Touch
Jure Tori is one of Slovenia's most celebrated accordionists, known for hopping with enviable ease between jazz, classical, Gypsy and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
Peter’s Field
Sean Cooney with Eliza Carthy, Sam Carter & Jennifer Reid
Sean Cooney has got form. As one part of the Teesside trio, The Young’uns, he has built a reputation for...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2026
Chamber Music
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal
This hypnotic masterpiece from the French label No Format is another fine example of the label’s penchant for putting musicians...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Wotcheor!
The album cover has Jez tilting his boater and grinning into a camera like an old-fashioned MC, as if beckoning...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
L'Ésprit Créole
With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Tradi-Mods vs Rockers – Alternative Takes on Congotronics
The Congotronics remix album was inevitable, of course. The primitively electrified ambience of Konono No 1 and the Kasai Allstars...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Oud for Palestine
Saied Silbak is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of London’s leading oud players and composers. His extensive musical vocabulary...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2026
Incendo
Feisty fiddles and thrilling tunes have long been at the heart of Scotland’s mighty Blazin’ Fiddles – and their new...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2026
