Reviews
Strange Days
Former Transglobal Underground singer and BBC Radio 3 World Music Award winner Natacha Atlas is well known for combining electro-acoustic...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Låtar II: Swedish Folk Tunes
Swedish folk tunes is what it says on the tin, and, indeed that's what you get. But these two exceptional...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Ink of the Rosy Morning
Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo’s debut for Topic Records is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist
London-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi ventures here into the porous terrain that lies somewhere between folk, classical, jazz and improvisation....
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2013
Escape That
This is Sweeney's first album of self-composed songs, its 11 tracks comprised of more than 20 pieces, written during lockdown...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
Mighty Poplar
This bluegrass supergroup that sees members of the Punch Brothers (Noam Pikelny and Chris Eldridge) join bassist Greg Garrison (Leftover...
Reviewed by Emma Rycroft in issue: April/2023
Set Sela
In a part of the world where a music scene is starting to make itself heard, Senegal's Guiss Guiss Bou...
Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2020
Japanistan
This recording by Paris-based instrumentalist Kengo Saito appears to occupy a niche of one, being a cross-section of music from...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
