Reviews
Noongar Wonderland
Maatakitj (pronounced ‘mart-a-key-tch’ and translated as ‘long legs like a spear’) is the nickname of West Australian musician Clint Bracknell,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022
Shake the Chains
The Shake the Chains protest-song project (featured in #125) was conceived by English folk singer Greg Russell after his university...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2017
El Valle de la Infancia
A son, a brother and a nephew join Argentinian bandoneón (squeezebox) virtuoso Dino Saluzzi for this latest offering from the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
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
Black Atlantica Edits
Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020
Retribution
Tanya Tagaq's music somehow manages to feel completely out of this world, and at the same time deeply plugged into...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
I Vine Speil (In the Mirror of Wine)
Mahsa Vahdat is one of the most courageous and enterprising of contemporary Iranian singers. Courageous bec ause despite restrictions on...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2011
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
