Reviews
Happy Machine
The high-energy high jinks of this group from Bosnia and Herzegovina work a sort of reverse Balkanisation. Which is to...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: April/2016
Liminal Silence
Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder
Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
Pepito y Paquito
Many albums are ballyhooed for their ‘historic’ significance. Most are truly significant only as gap-fillers on the shelves of completist...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Salt River
Recorded by Sam Amidon (guitar, fiddle), Sam Gendel (saxophone, synthesizer) and Philippe Melanson (percussion) in Gendel’s Los Angeles home studio,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2025
Give Water to Birds
Zöj are an intriguing Australian band who defy easy categorisation. Their name means ‘Couple’ in Farsi; they started as a...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/2025
Saha Gnawa
Collaborations between jazz musicians and members of the Afro-Moroccan Gnawa community are nothing new, though they rarely seem to live...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2025
symbiont
On Spider Tales, his 2020 debut album, Jake Blount blazed a trail through the forest of roots music in general...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024
Grace Bay
Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello
Offspring of noted figures in their native West Clare and County Galway, the husband-and-wife team of Tommy McCarthy and Louise...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2014
High Rise
The debut album from a Scottish fiddler and composer whose ‘Fiddle Tune a Day’ YouTube project presented a new tune...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015
Together Not Apart
Cornwall may be famous for its coast, sunshine and laidback lifestyle – if you are a surfer with sufficient funds,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
