Reviews

Till Skogen

Kolonien

Climate change, pandemics, wars… there’s an urgent need to raise people’s spirits, so the joy and optimism of Kolonien’s Till...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2022

Baiana

Baiana

Liverpudlian Laura Doyle certainly fooled this particular Anglophone. Hearing the opening ‘Samba Mortal’, upbeat carnival music sung convincingly in Portuguese,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023

Zartir

The Gurdjieff Ensemble | The Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian

George Gurdjieff (c 1867-1949) was a philosopher, mystic and composer, whose music is generally known through the transcriptions of the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2023

7

BGKO

The Barcelona Gipsy BalKan Orchestra, formerly the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra, present their seventh album – hence the title. A...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2024

Deep Sea Vents

BrhyM

Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

High Horse

High Horse

If beautiful, genre-melding compositions that blur the lines between bluegrass, roots, jazz and chamber music performed by a group of...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025

Noor-e Vojood

Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian

Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian is 23 years old, but his music resounds with a sense of ancient mystery. It’s unsurprising given...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2025

Ti Love

David Walters

From joyful dancefloor productions to funky Afro-pop, reggae and gorgeously melancholic numbers, David Walters’ new album is an expansive affair....

Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: April/2026

Dreng

Gangar

Norwegian five-piece ensemble Gangar blend Nordic roots music with heavy metal. With no quarter given to either of the two...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: May/2026

Mīt warde

Sarāb

Sarāb’s Mīt warde confronts the turmoil of recent years head-on, transforming helplessness, anger and moral disorientation into an uncompromising assertion...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: May/2026