Reviews
Momentos
Dulce Pontes began her musical career in 1991 when, as a shy teenager, she sang for Portugal in the Eurovision...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Waterduction
One of Poland's outstanding musical exports, Warsaw Village Band follow their return-to-roots set, Mazovian Roots Re:action, with something of a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2021
Al Qantara: The Bridge
Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014
Ji
This pairing between German ex-Embryo bassist Pollheide and Indian sitar player Imran Khan marks the culmination of seven years of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: March/2022
The Bear’s Revenge
Moulettes have been conjuring up a mystical world with poetic lyrics and richly textured music for the last ten years,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Yours to Break
During the writing of their third album, the three East Pointers were scattered across the globe, each a long way...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
Locks & Bolts
There's innovation in the settings Nick Janaway and Sarah Owen bring to these traditional songs recorded live in Bristol in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Fringe Music
A trio of Norwegian jazz instrumentalists took a road trip in the Appalachian mountains; this whip-smart, virtuosic album of improvised...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
La Otra Mitad
Nothing startles these days. Postmodernism has attuned us to collage, palimpsest and pastiche. But this sampling of sonic essays on...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019
Eritrea's Got Soul
Eritrea has become Africa's forgotten country – certainly when it comes to music. Bordered on one side by the Red...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
