Reviews
Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia
Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
IRE
These four Colombians who met, and started making music together, in New York, have crafted their own slightly-rock, slightly-psych and...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2022
Amazonia
Finis Africae is essentially the Spanish multi-instrumentalist Juan A Arteche, flanked by a small team of distinctive collaborators. This reissued...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2016
Dirt is Good
Perhaps we can forego debating the tastiness of the mouse-on-a-stick, a Malawi delicacy hawked by this eight-piece combo when they...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014
The Long Way Home
Since joining forces more than two decades ago, Devon duo Steve Knightley and Phil Beer have become not only a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2016
Kismet
Since their debut as Kolektif Istanbul, Krivoto (which came out nearing the peak of the Balkan hype in 2008), the...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021
Manuia!
A re-release of a cult album from almost ten years ago, Manuia! plunges us into an aural world of singular...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
RELAY, Vol 1
There are good reasons to buy this album, via Bandcamp, at the price of your choosing, because all proceeds are...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Balkan Reggae
Mahala Rai Banda – the youthful Bucharest Gypsy band who mix brass and strings – are no newcomers to being...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Through the Wild
For their second album, this Americana-leaning group have stepped unabashedly into festival-friendly folk-pop-rock, complete with bold, dramatic choruses and songs...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
