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Review of Azerbaijani Love Songs

Azerbaijani Love Songs

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

As you might suspect if you’re familiar with the instrumental music of Azerbaijan, Azeri love songs are lyrical, heartfelt and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014

Review of Por Meu Cante

Por Meu Cante

António Zambujo

World Village

Rating: ★★★

Por Meu Cante was originally released in 2004 and it’s the second of Antonio Zambujo’s albums. Although his singing only...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Undercurrent

Undercurrent

Sarah Jarosz

Sugar Hill Records

Rating: ★★★

Accompanied by a line-up different from her familiar touring trio of recent years, Sarah Jarosz offers Undercurrent, which serves as...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Erros

Erros

Eléonor

I-C-U-B-4-T

Rating: ★★

Elly Aerden, the birth-name of the artist known as Eléonor, sets great store on the fact that Latin is an...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2015

Review of Solo & Indrė

Solo & Indrė

Solo

One Root Music/Granvat

Rating: ★★★★

Cross-cultural kora and string collaborations have been rather in vogue for the last couple of years, and for good reason:...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Urlar

Urlar

Breabach

Top of the World

Breabach Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Recently voted live act of the year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, Breabach have established themselves as...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2014

Review of Live in Paris

Live in Paris

The Master Musicians of Joujouka

Unlistenable Records

Rating: ★★★★

The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Review of Between the Sky & Prairie

Between the Sky & Prairie

The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho

Wind Music

Rating: ★★★

Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018

Review of Owl Light

Owl Light

Owl Light Trio

Owllighttrio.com

Rating: ★★★

This is the debut album from an Oxfordshire folk trio that has emerged from the folk group Telling the Bees,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018

Review of Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film

Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Divorced from the documentary that it soundtracks [reviewed on p103], Sounds And Silence effectively becomes a plain and simple ECM...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

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