Reviews

Happ

Fribo

The innovative Scottish/Scandinavian/English band is happy to admit to being in something of a period of transition, Fribo sound in...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Madremonte

Jaguar

Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: December/2021

Esteesee

Ange Hardy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016

Mare Nostrum

Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall is a leading specialist in early music, the styles of the 12th to 18th century. In those times...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2012

Overtones

Wu Wei & Wang Li

It's perhaps a measure of the subtlety of the music that the liner notes to this new addition to Harmonia...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: November/2016

Haivka

Yurodny

Yurodny are an experimental music ensemble based in Ireland, with an interest in reconfiguring and reimagining the music of other...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Slečena Koža

Brina

Slovene singer Brina Vogelnik and her band have been quietly doing very good work in extending the musical language of...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013

El Boom Boom

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Now here’s a turn up for the books. The indefatigable Tumi Records of Bath has stumbled across a compilation containing...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

AlKemi

Daymé Arocena

Cuban music contributes to, and absorbs, myriad musics from across Latin America, the Caribbean and the US. It has also...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2024

Super Son

Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo

Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: September/2024