Reviews
Tu Comu Stai?
These two albums feature different perspectives on Sicilian musical traditions. Trinacria, taking its name from the old Greek name of...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Praznina/Emptiness
Best known as a member of the Slovenian ‘imaginary folk’ band Širom, Iztok Koren is an experimental multi-instrumentalist who clearly...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2023
Fracassines
Musician and producer Olivier Conan moved from Paris to New York in his 20s. Having immersed himself in tropical Latin...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2024
Glasshouses
Keyboardist Lascelles was a founder member of the Global Village Trucking Company in the early 1970s, going on to become...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017
Urram
Karen Matheson's first solo album of exclusively Gaelic songs is remarkable for its unexpected and surprising musical settings. Matheson has...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2015
Taboussizé-Niger
Mamar Kassey is the working group name used by the musician Yacouba Moumouni (nicknamed Denké-Denké). The group is from Niger...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
The Medlars
As a four-piece playing informally at an English traditional wassail-singing session, The Medlars impressed me with the direct, welcoming performance...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2017
Camin d'Estèlas
Coriandre consist of five middle-aged men who all possess great dexterity on a variety of instruments – vocalist Yves Masson...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019
Burden Lake
Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman
Burden Lake is the debut collaboration between Scotland’s Kevin Henderson on fiddle and American Neil Pearlman on piano, a beautiful...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
