Reviews
The Chuck Norris Project
The track titles of this sixth album from the Edinburgh-based Americana collective read like a back-catalogue of dodgy Hollywood action...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2015
Here Come The Sons
Five years after Wim Wenders’ 1999 Buena Vista Social Club, he executive produced a follow-up film titled Música Cubana: The...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
American Hornpipe
This is the fourth album from the American duo whose credo is ‘new-time old-time music’ and who follow the tracks...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Chant Amazigh
Even devoted followers of Algerian music may find the name Majid Soula rings no bells – thankfully, the latest (number...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022
Neue Gezeiten
What an inspired blend of instruments Jodelfisch have alighted upon, variously a mix of harp, accordion, clarinet, tuba or cornet,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
The Indispensable 1955-1962
Once music goes out of its 50-year copyright, open season follows on the reissues market. Two issues ago I reviewed...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015
From Night to the Edge of Day
The birth of her first child inspired the Iranian-born Canadian resident Azam Ali to record an album of lullabies as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Ashore
June Tabor was born in Warwickshire, right in the middle of England, where Shakespeare came from. You can’t be more...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2011
Omnibus
All aboard the Omnibus express! Brussels-based musician Geneviève Laloy whisks us along on a sensational journey with her fifth album,...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: October/2023
Lysning
Nils Økland has a characteristic so often found in Norwegian music, a combination of humility and determination. He has had...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2018
