Reviews
The Eternal Rocks Beneath
Priddy’s Wolf EP appeared in 2018, garlanded with praise from Richard Thompson. She’s since played the stages of Cambridge and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Komorebi Live
Dyad (Didier Laloy & Adrien Tyberghein)
The partnership of double bass with diatonic accordion might seem as unlikely as a romance between a Great Dane and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2023
We Will Never Die
This is Tuva’s one and only Albert Kuvezin’s first Yat-Kha studio album since 2010’s excellent Poets and Lighthouses. Right from...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2021
African Pearls: Senegal – Echo Musical
This collection of largely unknown tracks from Senegambia in the 1970s offers some unexpected musical treats, showcasing as it does...
Reviewed by Jenny Cathcart in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Lawless, Winged & Unconfined
Clarinettist Merlin Shepherd, a central figure of the British klezmer crowd, presents us here with a new band, Hamsa, and...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
The Fruited Thorn
Formerly the singer with Gaelic band Mouth Music for several groundbreaking albums in the 90s before joining ‘acid croft’ pioneers...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Froggy’s Demise
EZRA is what you get when a group of ridiculously talented musicians combine all of the different “grasses” – bluegrass,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
Songs of the Spanish Civil War Vols 1 & 2
Just as Western countries have today banned their subjects from travelling to fight in Syria, in the 1930s the US...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015
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
KahraMusiqa
Singer-songwriter Badiâa Bouhrizi should really be a household name in global music circles. In Tunisia, her birthplace, she is beloved...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2023
