Reviews
Fiddlers/Quiet Rapture
I love Juuri & Juuri. I love the honesty of their music, their passion for their musical heritage, I love...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2013
Before the Sun
Following her fine solo debut, Charms Against Sorrow, the singer and guitarist has teamed up with The Willows’ dobro player,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
Guitar Tango: Más Allá
Martín Alvarado & Horacio Avilano
Mentored by the late bandoneón player and songwriter Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer Martín Alvarado has been plying his plaintive, precisely...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Picnic
Otherwise known as accordionist Sam Pirt andpercussionist Gary Hammond, The Hut People bring to their second full-length album much of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012
The Best of Soapkills
In 2009 I spent a week in Beirut lecturing on music journalism and asked each of my students to bring...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The Art of the Shakuhachi
Katsuya Yokoyama, one of the last great masters of Japanese traditional music, brings us an exemplary recording of 17th-century shakuhachi...
Reviewed by Darran Smith in issue: July/2017
Enregistré Live
Genticorum's four previous albums confirmed them as one of Quebec's most vibrant, energetic and exciting groups. They have developed a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
Sheema
A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
No Land
Olivier Mellano, Brendan Perry & Bagad’ Cesson
Brendan Perry's voice is a deep, sonorous instrument that carries all before it: a strong tidal river without a shore....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
Silence
Coşkun Karademir, Tord Gustavsen, Derya Türkan & Ömer Arslan
A master of the traditional Turkish long-neck lutes, Coşkun Karademir has released several remarkably adventurous recordings. With The Secret Ensemble...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2021
