Reviews
Where the World is Thin
Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
The Servants' Ball
This exuberantly entertaining album came about after double bass player Ben Nicholls, reading about Sussex concertina player Scan Thester, found...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020
Tango Tango de Norte a Sur
We hear lots of rumours about Finland’s tango obsession but rarely get to hear its music. This innovative release features...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Where I Come From
If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2014
Burden Lake
Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman
Burden Lake is the debut collaboration between Scotland’s Kevin Henderson on fiddle and American Neil Pearlman on piano, a beautiful...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
I Was Real
This is the duo's third album, now featuring an expanded line-up with extra guitars and percussion, saxophones, viola, upright bass...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
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
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Help My Brother
For a couple of gifted instrumentalists, Eric (banjo) and Leigh Gibson (guitar) have honed their naturally nasal vocal registers into...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011
