Reviews
Selva
Listen to the opening of ‘Cumbia de la Selva’ and you’ll find yourself unsure where it's taking you. Spain or...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2016
Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand
Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
On Tour/Reunion
It's 1965, British Guiana is on the cusp of independence, ready to throw off the corrupt yoke of Albion, and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
YITA (Deep Water)
Ivorian-American singer Fely Tchaco released her fifth album on International Women’s Day (March 8), a gesture intended to underline its...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Walsh & Pound
In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Lys/Mørke
Avant-garde bassist Sigurd Hole recorded Lys/Mørke on the island of Sørværet in the Norwegian arctic. If it was recorded anywhere...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020
Clarion
Paul Hutchinson, half of the fabulous Belshazzar's Feast, teams up here with clarinettist Karen Wimhurst from the world of contemporary...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016
Before the Sun
Following her fine solo debut, Charms Against Sorrow, the singer and guitarist has teamed up with The Willows’ dobro player,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016
Ballads of the Broken Few
Seth Lakeman featuring Wildwood Kin
The sound of Devon singer-songwriter and fiddler Seth Lakeman is well-known to many. This is his eighth studio album since...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016
Quiero Creedence
The unlikely inspiration for this exuberant Latino tribute to the songs John Fogarty wrote for his band Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
