Reviews
Reassembled
Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021
Gagok, Pungnyu III
This is a beautifully packaged atmospheric recording, but one that may take some getting used to. The gagok repertoire, protected...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2012
Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010
The Gift Band | Various Artists
There's not been, to my knowledge, a live album from Norma Waterson. So give a warm hand, please, for this...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2012
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017
Heavy Water
Heavy Water is music-making at its most sublimely imagined and laudably purposed. It’s the first album by Magic Tuber Stringband...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Fontana Rosa
Multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis returns with an all-star Celtic/Latin line-up featuring Venezuelan percussionist Baldo Verdú, American drummer Shawn Lee, the Isle...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
Esquineros
The esquina (street corner) has mythic currency in Buenos Aires. It's the classic location of cafés and bars, and it's...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2016
Music from Entre Douro e Vouga
In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...
Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Notre Album Solo
Le Vent du Nord & De Temps Antan
The supergroup of Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan came together a few years ago to tour, but...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: June/2019
Temple of Hope
How can a sense of beauty be found amid fear and cruelty? Saba Alizadeh, on his third album now, continues...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: February/March/2025
