Reviews
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan & Edgar Meyer
It's almost a decade since the adventurous classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with bluegrass fiddle/banjo player Stuart Duncan, double...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Meanders
A Labrador, catching the scent of rabbits in the bushes, sniffs about. ‘Polly in the Wood’, one of several lovely...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Cor Amant
The textures and timbres produced by this all-female string quartet are quite unlike any other. Tokso bring together the reedy,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2014
Ferrari Safari
Best known to us for his series of field recordings of African traditional music and for reissuing the 22-CD Historical...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2020
¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz
A coastal offshoot of the Mexican folk music scene that burst into life during the 1970s, son jarocho has roots...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018
The Bend in the Light
Hailing from K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, classically trained Ellen Gibling’s keen interest in Irish traditional music is given free rein...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2022
Tinta y Tiempo
Uruguayan songwriter Jorge Drexler’s first album in five years shares many-hued stories of love and lust with classic Drexlerian poetic...
Reviewed by Catalina Maria Johnson in issue: June/2022
Of Time
Ethio-jazz- and Afrobeat-inspired groups are a ubiquitous presence at music festivals these days, with new album releases appearing year after...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: February/March/2026
