Reviews
Making Tracks: 2019 Live Tour
In rural Powys in 2019, Making Tracks gathered eight of the most exciting young roots musicians from across Europe and...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021
Mornas de Cabo Verde
For the past half-century, the languid and lush musical genre morna has been successfully exported from its birthplace, a volcanic...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: November/2016
Tombstone
The Hot 8 Brass Band have made a huge impact in the UK over the last six months. Towards the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2013
In the Footsteps of Rumi
Ghalia Benali, Kiya Tabassian & Constantinople
The 13th-century mystic Jalaluddin Rumi has become the most famous of Sufi poets as his lyrics chime with a modern,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2023
Written in Water
There's a sense of loss as well as near-chaotic celebration about this collaboration between musicians of the Scottish Highlands and...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
Direct-to-Disc Sessions
The demand for albums that capture live performance has long been omnipresent, but the clamour has intensified in the digital...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2020
Det Var en Lørdagsafen
Saturday night's alright for, well, in this case, singing! Firo's new release translates as ‘Once on a Saturday Night’ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2020
Seljord anno 1935
When fiddler and writer Per Anders Buen Garnås, son of the famous singer Agnes Buen Garnås, added to his already...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
