Reviews
Quest Ensemble: The Other Side
This stunning sophomore release from London-based Quest Ensemble is a thing of beauty and brilliance, artfully embodying, as it does,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020
Yellow Spaceship
Jacob Gurevitsch is a flamenco guitarist from Denmark. His third album, Yellow Spaceship, sails through a seductive soundscape of flamenco,...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2022
Tangaria
French accordionist Richard Galliano knocks out an album or two every year and tours widely as a sort of ambassador...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2010
What We Thought Was a Lake Was a Field of Flax
Tyler and Hill first met in Newcastle, singing as part of the Sacred Harp sessions, with Hill adding vocals to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Sròmos
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
Lily
Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Fly
Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: July/2019
Kizaki Ondo
Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society, Clark Naito
‘Kizaki Ondo’ is an Edo-period folk song that originated in the bustling post town of Nitta Kizakicho, Gunma Prefecture. It...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2019
