Reviews
Routes
Often when a band boasts of playing a mix of dub, punk, jazz, ska and Balkan music it means they...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2014
Dub of Thrones
If you’re not into dub, this is an album that would never feature on your radar, so criticisms such as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2015
The Beautiful & the Actual
This debut from the Wiltshire folk singer reveals something of a folk trend towards strong female singer-songwriters with illuminating and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2017
ECHO
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Evening Star
The ten members of the American women's choir Kitka are heirs to a project that began 40 years ago in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2019
Inner World
One can imagine Bono’s wrap-around shades turning green with envy when he heard that the New Zealand duo Junelle and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Vulture Prince
Pakistani-American singer and composer Arooj Aftab weaves the Hindustani vocal tradition into exquisite arrangements that are mournful but moreish, creating...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2021
No More Peace
Haydamaky’s roots lie in the Ukraine in the early 90s and the heady spirit of post-Soviet liberation when a vibrant...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Las Olas de Niebla
Virtuoso guitar player and composer Eduardo Niebla has a 40-year history of genre-crossing collaboration behind him and his latest offering...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: July/2019
