Reviews
Undercover Beast
Langendorf United scooped a Grammy Award, plus a Top of the World album pick in Songlines in 2023, for their...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025
É Ferro Na Boneca!
Whenever you see ‘new’ on a college, bridge or pub you know it's pretty ancient. Same goes for ‘novos’ when...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
Pace of Mind
Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: July/2015
Schladtzshe!
Raise your glasses and drink a toast: the new CD by Finnish harmonica quartet Sväng has arrived. This brilliant foursome...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2011
Ethiobraz
The traditional Ethiopian musicians of Addis Ababa's Fendika Azmari Bet have joined forces with Paal Nilssen-Love's pan-Scandinavian group Large Unit...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
Voice of the People: “It Was Mighty!” – The Early Days of Irish Music in London
These two sets of field recordings – from the pubs, clubs, ballrooms, bars, private rooms, Irish centres and occasional radio...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2016
The Wilders
Bluegrass, country, rock‘n’roll, honky-tonk, spit‘n'sawdust story-telling: call it what you like, this four-piece band from Kansas City, Missouri, do it...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Line-Up
Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011
Funky Africa
Compared to, say, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, Almon Memela is not a name much celebrated in the pantheon of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022
Ankomst
A prize–winning folk fiddler, Gjermund Larsen is a top–notch musician and can clearly do whatever he wants to on the...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2010
