Reviews
Bullinn
Bullinn is the third album from the Norwegian Hardanger fiddler (and prize-winning fiddle maker) Ottar Kåsa, jazz musician Mattis Kleppen...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Big Brothers
Veteran Jamaican roots singer Winston McAnuff and French accordionist Fixi collaborate again here on a long-awaited second album; McAnuff used...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: December/2018
Peacock
Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos
The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Europeana
Jaune Toujours are the rambunctious and eclectic Belgian sextet led by singer and accordionist Piet Maris. This is their first...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
La Alianza Profana
There is little difference between the way Dengue Dengue Dengue! make music and the way A Guy Called Gerald or...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2013
Les Racines
As the son of one of the world’s greatest ever musicians, it’s understandable that Vieux Farka Touré has spent his...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2022
La Route Intérieure
For 20 years, producer, composer and instrumentalist Xavier Demerliac has been creating concept albums as L’Attirail. His records are influenced...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015
Ibibio Sound Machine
Given Nigeria's powerful musical tradition and the strong expat Nigerian community in the UK, it's perhaps surprising we haven't heard...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2014
El Mito de la Pérgola
If any musician is going to reconfigure the airy strangeness of Andean music, Chilean singer Pascuala Ilabaca might be the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
