Reviews
We Have Tigers
I have mixed feelings about We Have Tigers, the debut folk album of the Finnish-English artist Inga Liljeström. Let's deal...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2018
Despite the Wind and Rain
Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: March/2023
Lézard Vert
Do you ever get the feeling that you've put on the wrong album? Lézard Vert is considered a foundational album...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021
Karin
Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin
Armenian duduk (oboe) player Vardan Hovanissian and Belgian-Turkish singer and saz (lute) player Emre Gültekin recorded the beautiful album Adana...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019
Transparent Water
In October 2000 Cuban pianist Omar Sosa made his UK debut in the most inauspicious surroundings: the bar of Glasgow’s...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2017
Nau Mai E Kā Hua
Two of New Zealand's most innovative contemporary musicians, singer-composer Ariana Tikao and multi-instrumentalist and producer Al Fraser have worked together...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021
The Reason Why Vol 3
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra
According to Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš, this will be the last outing of covers for his Subtropic Arkestra ensemble. If...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Archival Recordings of the Legendary Lead Violinist from Myjava in 1929-1957
Samko Dudík (1880-1967) was a Slovak Gypsy fiddler and band leader, but more than that he was a larger-than-life personality...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018
Time to Fly
The debut duo album from RURA's flautist David Foley and fiddler Jack Smedley is a beautiful, evocative and well-cra.ed release....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2020
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When they recorded their first album, the American-Irish supergroup had no idea it would be so successful. Their five-night string...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
