Reviews
Rhythms of Tof Miriam
If, like me, you have a reptile-brain suspicion of recordings that bring together New Age sensibilities with world drums and...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2020
Elbow Room
Following 2016's North, a set of bracing duos with Belfast-born fiddler Conor Caldwell, Elbow Room is the second solo offering...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2016
Ceòl Mòr/Light & Shade
Ceòl Mòr, which translates as ‘Great Music,’ is the classical music of the highland bagpipe. This is an instrument of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Awakening the Fire
Navajo flautist R Carlos Nakai's ethereal tone has won him a huge following and has introduced Native American flute music...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Ffiniau
Ffiniau is Welsh for ‘borders’ and harpist and singer Bethan Nia’s debut album explores the boundaries that exist between people,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021
The Fade in Time
Sam Lee has wandered throughout the UK and Ireland learning songs, and how to sing them, from travellers and Gypsies,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
Layers of Ages
Since he left Steeleye Span in 2013, Peter Knight's major musical preoccupation has been Gigspanner. (The name refers to that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
Narrante
Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi
This album was simultaneously released in Iran on Hermes Records and internationally on ECM. Both of these are ‘connoisseur’ labels...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016
