Reviews
Deixaas
Mercedes Peon's exploratory lyricism, manic multi-instrumentalism, dynamic live shows, and even her punky cropped hair, have lent Galician folk an...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Tall Tales
When there are seven instrumentalists on stage, and a simmering energy bubbling beneath their fingers, it must be difficult for...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Radiant Others
We are, perhaps, most familiar with the sound of a clarinet or violin taking the lead in instrumental klezmer music....
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2018
Né So
It's easy to read too much into the circumstances surrounding the making of a record, but it's clear that some...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
Liag
Dermot Byrne, Éamonn Coyne, John Doyle
Here's something to relish: three musicians at the top of their games – Dermot Byrne (accordion), Éamonn Coyne (tenor banjo),...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2019
Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds
Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver grew up listening to the calls of the curlew. It was a sound that made such...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: June/2022
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017
Baile Bucanero
The first Ondatrópica album was recorded in Colombia's legendary Discos Fuentes recording studio. Unfortunately – criminally, in fact – that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017
Mind Maintenance
Chicago-based Joshua Abrams is a jazz bassist whose career encompasses a range of experimental strands. He’s long been an aficionado...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2021
Ghost Owl
Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow
It's boom time for bird-themed music. Folksinger Sam Lee has his nightingales project; composer Cosmo Sheldrake's Wake Up Calls samples...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2021
