Reviews
XIV – A Integração
XIV – A Integração is a wonderfully untidy, uneven pile of ideas, mysticism and sacred touchstones, electro-acoustics and real sound,...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023
Carrying
Unifying the output of North Carolina-based musician Sally Anne Morgan is not easy. There's her solo albums, 2020's Thread and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2023
King of the Blind
Originally from California, now based in Boston, the young uilleann piper Joey Abarta names his second album after a tune...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023
Conversations We’ve Had Before
With stalwart melodeon player Saul Rose and sympatico guitarist David Delarre, Eliza Carthy has hit on the perfect combination. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2023
Black Attack
40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: January/February/2024
El Clan Antillano
A lurid cover, featuring decor worthy of a dream sequence from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, is not the only distinguishing...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2024
Udolç
The Càntut collection is a project dedicated to collecting and disseminating music orally transmitted in the region of Girona, in...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024
Sing Yonder 1
In 2021 graphic designer Karl Sinfield began putting simple arrangements of traditional songs online, with basic chords and audio guidance...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2023
Oriental Mirrors
Romanian improvising unit Multumult have released four studio sessions, but this is their first live album, recorded at Bucharest’s Green...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024
Jolifanto
For all its depth of tradition, flamenco has always been moved by innovation. In 1979 Camarón de le Isla’s La...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2024
