Reviews
Serious Time
With 15 tracks of solid dancehall reggae, Glasgow's Mungo's Hi Fi didn’t mince their words when they named their third...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Golden Age
Any album that cites influences as diverse as swamp jazz, Malian desert rock, Peru’s psychedelic chicha music and ‘master of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2025
Sounds of the Eclipse
Rotterdam-based Anton de Bruin is a keyboardist, composer and producer, as well as the founder of record label Sundown Recordings....
Reviewed by George Newton in issue: December/2025
Matheu Watson
They look after their young talent in Scotland. Gaelic speaker Matheu Watson studied music at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
ECHO
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Quercus
Quercus (June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren)
Quercus means ‘oak’ in Latin, and the oak is steeped in folklore from root to crown. So is the music...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Renaissance
Tonino Baliardo, one of the founding members of Gipsy Kings, is back with his first album in more than eight...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2023
Adama Drame
A long-term champion of West Africa’s loudest hand drum, the djembé master Adama Dramé here gets his early 90s solo...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Traces of You
This album is certainly Anoushka’s most personal to date, as most of the tracks are inspired by, or in memory...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
