Reviews
Evigheten Forestår
Meet Hekate, a vocal trio that have already cast a spell over audiences with their chilling and thrilling brew of...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/2025
Stråk
In the mid-17th century, the copper mining industry began in the Norwegian town of Røros. The mines needed coal and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2025
Sweet Sweet Jamaica
Gilzene & The Blue Light Mento Band
Before soca came calypso; before salsa there was son. And if you’ve ever wondered what Jamaica danced to before ska,...
Reviewed by Simon Lee in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Thunder
‘A Song for Thor’ that opens this album is a thunderous Thor de force. It features a four-metre long Tibetan...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2023
Pandemic Songs
Johnson is an English singersongwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and always fights the good fight. His forefathers...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2020
Mediterranean Quartet
Matia Levréro & Tcha Limberger
Belgian Gypsy violinist Tcha Limberger has featured several times in these pages for his excellent jazz manouche, Hungarian Gypsy and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2019
Tales of Bobbi Niger
Formed in Denmark in 2022, the quartet of guitarists Alain Apaloo and Olav Poulsen, harmonica player Peter Nande and percussionist...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024
Interesting Times
‘There is no escaping it. We live in the sort of times that will be referred to by historians as...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017
AKKOR
Best known as the lead singer of the Turkish retro psychedelic rockers BaBa ZuLa, Melike Şahin has now set out...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: February/March/2025
As It Comes
Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Ward Dhoore has made fairly regular appearances in these pages as a member of such forward-thinking...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2025
