Reviews
Even the Sparrow
Kelly Hunt possesses an exceptionally lithe and expressive voice, which sounds like a delicate songbird imbued with the mojo of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2019
Maloya Malbar
Is La Réunion the new Cuba? Just as the music of the latter pulsed ubiquitously through the late 90s and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023
Waterfjord
With the title of his third album Matti Kallio playfully honours his origins while tipping his hat to a long...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2023
Here Come the Young
A veteran singer-songwriter and activist, Joseph has purveyed social and protest songs since his first studio release in 1983. The...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2019
Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Hunger of the Skin
Hunger of the Skin finds Flook flautist Brian Finnegan putting COVID-19 lockdown purdah to scintillating use with a firing-on-all-cylinders set....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2021
Here's My Heart Come Take It
The Scottish singer, harpist and pianist Rachel Newton is part of the Furrow Collective, Emily Portman's trio and The Shee....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2016
A Year of Swimming
From the off, the latest release from the incredible instrumentalist drops you into his utterly unique African guitar cosmos. For...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: May/2020
Old Tire Swingers
Aside from a Facebook page, on which they good-naturedly promote other bands playing good-time music in and around their hometown...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2013
