Reviews
Un Autre Blanc
This is hailed as the veteran Malian singer's final album: at nearly 70, Keita is ‘retiring.’ Certainly, Un Autre Blanc...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2019
The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads
Hailing from the Basque country and sharing a name with the great 14th-century explorer who travelled from North Africa all...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Blackletter Garland
The Hack-Poets Guild are Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and composer and sound designer Nathaniel Mann. Working with Sound UK Arts,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023
Spirit Bird
He may have been around for a decade, but there is still a youthful urgency to Rudd’s music. He mixes...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012
Live at Celtic Connections
Having spent six years creating and recording The Strathglass Trilogy, his ambitious three-album instrumental tribute to the land where his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2014
This Too
For the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Free One in 2017, this Glasgow-based instrumental ensemble of fiddlers Laura Wilkie,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022
Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah
The credits on this double album by the young dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer contain the intriguing line:...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
¡Así es… Con salsa
Alfredo Gutierrez y Los Caporales del Magdalena
One of the things that puts non-addicts off salsa is the repetition, the predictability, the trance-inducing level tone. For dancers,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2023
Caribbean in America 1915-1962
No niche is too specialist for France's Frémeaux label. This release contains a whopping 66 tracks. But then again, American...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017
