Reviews
Plays Vasco Martins
Bau has been a behind-the-scenes stalwart of Cape Verdean music ever since Cesaria Evora first put the islands on the...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013
In the Footsteps of Rumi
Ghalia Benali, Kiya Tabassian & Constantinople
The 13th-century mystic Jalaluddin Rumi has become the most famous of Sufi poets as his lyrics chime with a modern,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2023
Direct-to-Disc Sessions
The demand for albums that capture live performance has long been omnipresent, but the clamour has intensified in the digital...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2020
Det Var en Lørdagsafen
Saturday night's alright for, well, in this case, singing! Firo's new release translates as ‘Once on a Saturday Night’ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2020
Flock and Fly
The English concertina player and Sweden-based fiddler released their first album together in 2006, and between then and the set...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2016
Kebrada
Elida Almeida is a 24-year-old Cape Verdean singer, who made a strong impression with her 2015 debut album, Ora Doci,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Redux: Anthology 1978-2015
After two game-changing albums with his mate Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd, John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
Horse Camp
The Lowest Pair & Small Town Therapy
In 2020, while camping in the Pacific Northwest, Kendl Winter (vocals, banjo, guitar) and Palmer T Lee (vocals, banjo, guitar),...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023
Rye Groove
Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band was born to party. Their unstoppable, urgent playing, mixed with rock-style stage performances has earned...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2015
Lotus Wight's Ode to the Banjo
Lotus Wight is the nom du guerre of Toronto native Sam Allison, a songster, folklorist, poet, fiddler, banjo historian and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2016
