Reviews
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Orontes began as a Syrian-Spanish project in the city of Homs, but ceased to function when the catastrophic civil war...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Absolutely The… Uniques
Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018
Battleplan
Hardy's fifth album was recorded with her touring band The Midnight Watch: Blazin' Fiddles guitarist Anna Massie; Braebach bassist James...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Sensitive Skin
Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen says, rather surprisingly, that Sensitive Skin is the first album he has made on which...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
Islais a Genir
In these English-dominated isles, almost any use of the Welsh language becomes a political act. VRï are a trio on...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2022
Raul Barboza & Juanjo Dominguez
Raul Barboza & Juanjo Dominguez
With Chango Spasiuk having been lured into the realm of the concert hall, like a latter-day Astor Piazzola, the main...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Danças de Porto de Mós
Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022
Esa Flor
A few years ago, Adan Pedroso and Asere, the group he founded, created the beautiful ‘Romántica’, a love song that...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010
Saturday Morning in Boston
The fluidity, sonic beauty and musical interplay exhibited on this record leaves little to suggest that this album was recorded...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: March/2021
