Reviews
Accordion Samurai
Perhaps in response to endless gags about their instrument being anti-social — ‘a gentleman is a man who can play...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Musica Fina
A six-piece UK- based fusion band, Fernando’s Kitchen grew out of a meeting on London’s South Bank between two buskers:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2014
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Merčedes Kolo
The Finnish harmonica band Sväng have made a series of photographs on different modes of transport – motorbike sidecar, railway...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2019
On & Between: New Music for Pipa & Western Ensembles
This suite of pieces by New York-based pianist and composer Zhen Chen is a musical tribute to Chinese immigrants to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Not One but Another
Andy Kirkham is a British, Norfolk-based folk guitar player and songwriter. His fifth solo album is a reflective affair, consisting...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: October/2015
Mai
The Aberystwyth singer-songwriter released her debut, Week of Pines, back in 2013, and it won her the Welsh Music Prize...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2020
Mañana
It's probably fair to say there aren’t that many famous Mexican-Canadian singer-songwriters out there and certainly none of the stature...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
La Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba
One of the island's wonderful historic musical institutions, the 114-year-old municipal brass band of Santiago continues to soldier on, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013
