Reviews
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
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
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
Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador
At first glance, the list of artists for this compilation appear too disparate to result in anything coherent: there’s Dobet...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/2021
I Dreamed an Island
Piers Faccini created a beautiful duo album, Songs of Time Lost, with cellist Vincent Segal in 2014. But the British...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
Camin Sobiran
Listen casually to this latest release from the Pau-based label in South-West France and you might mistake its minimalism for...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
Palimpsest
For their third album, Three Cane Whale eschew their previous in-the-field approach to recording – an 18th-century Bristol church for...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
