Reviews
Tants Caps, Tants Joguets
‘Everybody fancies a nice pork pie,’ claims the chorus of ‘Tiny Kitchen’, sung by a duo of guest vocalists known...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Your Mother Was a Peacock
Oxlip is Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jayne Trimble, originally from Northern Ireland, and her philosophy on Your Mother Was a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021
From Transylvania
Where is the meeting point between Romanian folklore and Jamaican-influenced dub? Lil Obeah, from Transylvania, is there, with hints of...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2022
Cycling Music
Richard Durrant is a brave man – he is attempting to tour his new album around the UK by bike....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Soho
On his debut album, Cuban singer-songwriter Domingo Candelario leaves behind many of the Cuban and Brazilian influences he’s been honing...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2012
Athamra
Lamia Bedioui & The Desert Fish
This musical tour of the Mediterranean works on a number of levels. Firstly, and most importantly, it works musically. Knitting...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2015
Now
The Swedish fiddler Ellika Frisell and the Senegalese kora player Solo Cissokho won a BBC Radio 3 Award for World...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Espiral de Ilusão
After recording the odd samba on previous albums, Criolo has now devoted a whole album to Brazil's national rhythm, infusing...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2018
