Reviews
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2022
Rangatira
A collaboration that pairs various traditional Maori instruments (ngā taonga pūoro) with percussion, Rangatira brings together two respected New Zealand...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
My Design, On Others' Lives
Based in New Zealand's music capital Wellington, Estère Dalton is a young producer- musician who's created her own bedroom-based ‘electric...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Boom
Sometimes musical fusions just don’t work, and this is a prime example. Partnering the Spanish producer, and founder of Ojos...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2015
Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus
The Caucasus mountains on the borders of Europe and Asia are a dramatic mosaic of landscapes and cultures. Alongside the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Rough Guide to Scottish Music
Compiled by broadcaster and singer Mary Ann Kennedy, this latest compilation illustrates the rich variety of the crop of Scottish...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Apr/May/2014
Dawn of Paradise
Anupam Shobhakar & Anindo Chatterjee
Anupam Shobhakar is a New York-based Indian classical musician who plays sarod (an unfretted lute with a deeper tone than...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2021
Live at Celtic Connections
Having spent six years creating and recording The Strathglass Trilogy, his ambitious three-album instrumental tribute to the land where his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2014
Every Mortal Place
For 40 years, the great English squeezebox player, singer and Morris dancer, John Kirkpatrick, has lived in Shropshire. Every Mortal...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2013
