Reviews
This is How We Fly
The eponymously titled debut from Dublin-based four-piece is a singular, stylish and somewhat startling proposition. Originally brought together for the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Woven
The first album from the highly talented Northumbrian singer and flautist Sarah Hayes starts very promisingly. ‘The Fell Line’ is...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Nha Sentimento
If this was the first ever Cesaria Evora album I’d give it four or five stars. Even after a stroke...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Princesses of Arab Song
If any serious young Arab singer were going to devise the most challenging recording project imaginable, they'd probably come up...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2012
Aladura Songs Book
Aladura Songs Book finds two-time Grammy Award-winning percussionist Lekan Babalola – Lagos, Nigeria-born and living in his adopted Birmingham (UK)...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2023
To Know Where It's Going
The London-based brothers Anthony and Demetri Kastellani have put together a series of ambient/electronic tracks with an improv feel (some...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2023
Veseli Romi
Mile Petrović is now something of an elder statesman, still helming the Veseli Romi, most recently as a somewhat jazzy...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2023
One Day
It's titled One Day because it took just that for the remarkable fiddle player Jenna Reid to record this exquisite...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2023
Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two
The khaen is a bamboo free-reed mouth organ played by ethnic Laotians in Laos and Northeast Thailand. Performed solo, or...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: June/2023
