Reviews
Now We are Four
Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021
O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi
Oriental Brothers International Band
Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
On Love and Science
Zulya and the Children of the Underground
Zulya Kamalova, an Australian singer and exponent of Tatar and Russian music, and her band of maestros have teamed up...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2017
Unknown Nearness
Misagh Joolaee is an Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player based in Berlin. His solo album Ferne (2019) was surely the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021
Drifters & Vagabonds
With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Almost Home
The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
20sth
Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2017
Borderlands
Borderlands crosses boundaries in two ways. Haddo is the duo of husband and wife Nicky and Will Pound: she hails...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2014
Vindodo
The first thing you'll notice about this album is its packaging – no jewel case here! Instead, the CD comes...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
A Quiet House
At the heart of Julie Murphy’s austerely beautiful album is her song ‘You Are Flown From Me’. She sings of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
