Reviews
L’Ultime Concert
Astor Piazzolla with Manos Hadjidakis and the Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs
Originally released in 1996 (as Bandoneón Sinfónico), this ‘last concert’ album is now appearing, according to the French-only album notes,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Fly Down Little Bird
Mike Seeger was widely mourned when he passed away in August 2009, aged 75. While not as famous as his...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83
A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2015
Festyval
Hailing from Oldham, The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by guitarist Peter Solowka (he being of Ukrainian and Yugoslav heritage)....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Khedmat Be Khalq
I stumbled upon this album by chance, via Bandcamp, and I am glad its algorithms led me there.I travelled through...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: July/2023
Ideal
With a classical and jazz background, Catherine Bent, a Berklee professor of music, has harnessed her virtuoso cello playing to...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2018
Songs to Scythe Back the Overgrown
This young Manchester-based singer-songwriter and guitarist first made a bit of a name for himself in a duo with fiddler...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012
