Reviews
Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia
Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts with Pete Johnston
The second album from this Scottish duo brings the two to the Scottish folk songs of Cape Breton in Eastern...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: June/2025
The Warmth You Deserve
Stranded Horse with Boubacar Cissokho
Stranded Horse – real name Yann Tambour – is a French musical adventurer whose journey has taken him from the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2025
In Between
Following her 2024 album with Golestan Ensemble, singer/composer Elana Sasson further explores her Persian and Kurdish heritage on this ambitious...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2025
Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings
Basho was an unconventional and singular 12-string guitarist, an outsider whose music remains uniquely beguiling. Often dubbed the ‘Father of...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: February/March/2025
Black Woman & Child (2024 Remix)
Miguel Collins, far better known as Sizzla, played an intriguing role in reggae history. He began recording in the late...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2025
Slavic Folk Songs
Ansis Bētiņš and Artūrs Čukurs, like almost every other Latvian, grew up surrounded by folk songs. No wonder they developed...
Reviewed by Michał Wieczorek in issue: February/March/2025
The Instruction Manual
I’d not heard a robotic choir before, and won’t hear one again based on The Instruction Manual’s self-titled debut album....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
Ghadr
Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui
The trio of singer Sandy Chamoun and electronic music creators Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui have produced an album that...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: February/March/2025
A Assembleia Extraordinária
Rock gaúcho, rock from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, always had a penchant for the music of the British invasion....
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
Carmen 404
With this fourth album, the French-ish quartet Lolomis continue to provide high-grade, adventurous splicings of hard electronics and sylvan folk....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/March/2025
