Reviews
Live at St George’s
One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
Saudade
Saudade is the debut album from Brazilian classical guitarist Plínio Fernandes. A love letter to the songs Fernandes grew up...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: November/2022
ID
The album cover says it all: a picture of the globe, the various continents composed of heads of human beings...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021
Pratibha
One of 20th century India's truly great musicians, the Bengali sitar player Nikhil Banerjee, had an exceptional grasp of the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
The Road to Peterloo
Two centuries ago, mounted and armed troopers viciously waded into thousands of men, women and children who were gathered peacefully...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2019
Funky Dervish
The sixth album by the Israeli-born Istanbul resident Yinon Muallem reflects his uneasy search for a dialogue between two inextricably...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: March/2014
Room With a View
After six years, Old Blind Dogs are back. Founded by fiddler Jonny Hardie in 1990 while busking in the Highlands,...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Latin Perspective
Ahmed Dickinson & The Santiago Quartet
A government-owned bar named Yellow Submarine has recently opened in Havana. Its Beatles-themed interior – porthole windows, blue-and-yellow interior, Beatles...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Declan Kelly Presents Diesel N’ Dub
The son of a Maori mother and an Irish father, Sydney-based drummer Kelly regularly fronts his own band The Rising...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
