Reviews
Line-Up
Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Growing Up Wild
This is a great find – a modern journey to southern Taiwan with balladeer Lin Sheng Xiang and his Japanese...
Reviewed by Joanna Lee in issue: March/2010
Arctic Spirit: Music from the Siberian North
German & Claudia Khatylaev | Spiridon Shishigin | Zarina Kopyrina & Ilya Zhirkov
Sakha, or Yakutia, is a land of mammoths, gold and diamonds: a Siberian territory that sits atop permafrost and is...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Turbans
This is an album that surprises, impresses and leaves you feeling slightly giddy – like a kosh over the head,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Hatched
While she is not widely known in the UK, Badi Assad is one of the most popular Brazilian artists in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Ladilikan
This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017
A Retrospective
Pink Martini | Pink Martini & Saori Yuki
‘If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band,’ commented Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader of...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Malagasy Blues Song
Music and spirituality are intertwined in Madagascar. Lala Njava learned her warm, sonorous singing technique from the resident shaman in...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Solas an Lae
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien
Fiddler Ultan O'Brien and singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin have been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets in recent years. Having first...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2021
