Reviews
Rivages
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki
This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
Away From My Window
Hailing from Aberdeenshire, Iona Fyfe is one of Scotland's finest young ballad singers. With Fyfe's art rooted deeply in the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2018
Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors
Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Second Nature
Recent winners of Best World Music Group at Canada’s Folk Music Award, Toronto’s Minor Empire bring a subtlety to this...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2012
Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In
Fans of New Orleans-inspired jazziness, down-home countrified blues, and vaudevillian kazoo troupes will appreciate the skilful, old-fashioned endeavours of the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Suistamo Electricity
This is a huge piece of theatre inspired by the history of the Karelian village of Suistamo, once part of...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2016
Isula Ranni
Sharing a Sicilian background, the members of Rome-based Unavantaluna cohesively weave the island's traditional style and repertoire, sung in dialect,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2014
And If You Will Come to Me
Idan Raichel is a hugely successful Israeli composer and keyboard player with a considerable gift for catchy melodies you can't...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2019
AnásanA
While this is the first solo album from the Greek pianist, singer and composer, it’s certainly not her recording debut....
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2022
