Reviews

Sròmos

James Duncan Mackenzie

Piper and flute player with popular Scottish band Breabach, James Duncan Mackenzie comes from Back on the Isle of Lewis...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Cymande

Cymande

When Cymande's debut LP was released in 1972 it was largely ignored in their UK homeland. The UK's hip music...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2023

Live Wires

Söndörgő

Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016

Hearth

Mairearad Green

Multi­instrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020

Joa

Coco Mbassi

Coco Mbassi is a versatile and highly accomplished Paris-based female singer from Cameroon. She has recorded and performed live as...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2015

Little Lights

Ailie Robertson

Robertson is a harpist of high renown, having won all manner of prizes for her virtuosic clàrsach (Celtic harp) playing....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015

Curyman

Rogê

A cursory listen to these 11 tracks suggests a lost classic from the golden age of Música Popular Brasileira. But...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Alde

Benedicte Maurseth

Alde, meaning ‘swell’ in English, perfectly sums up the feel of this debut solo album from Hardanger fiddle player Benedicte...

Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: July/2012

In Search of Sources

Jarek Adamów & Marcin Kozak

Unlike the Jarek Adamów album that follows this one, In Search of Sources features two Polish musicians interested in the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022