Reviews
Ruins/Adfeilion
This is very highbrow folk. Gareth Bonello – aka The Gentle Good – is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and general thinker....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2016
So Familiar
So Familiar is the follow-up to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 2013 debut duo album, Love has Come for You....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2015
Helleristning
Alapnes was five when she stood in her grandfather’s kitchen in North Norway learning how to hold the fiddle that...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
Orkney Monster
Well, here is a bit of fun. Orkney-based big band The Chair are a formidable and electrifying presence. With a...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2021
Here & Gone Again
The twanging lap steel of The Honeycutters’ Matt Smith sets a countrified tone for ‘Make Us Stay’, the opening track...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
In the Shadow of the Song
The soft, mellow but plangent tone of the duduk is instantly recognisable and tugs at the heart strings. It has...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2012
Bem-Ti-Vi
Nelson da Rabeca, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Celio de Carvalho & Dona Benedita
The rabeca is a rustic variant on the violin, with a deep, dry tone. After seeing one on TV at...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Turas 1980
Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2018
Le Dernier Empereur Bantou
Pierre Kwenders’ first full-length project is an electro-fused delight. Kwenders currently resides in Montreal but has Congolese heritage and his...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2016
Future Flora
This superb third album from the Belgian-by-way-of-the-Balkans five-piece continues the winning formula of combining Afro-funk with Ethio-jazz and then mixing...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2019
