Reviews

Saar

Estbel

This quartet could be said to be a kind of quintet, their phantom fifth member being the Baltic island of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

1000 Watts

Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno

On his latest release Quantic returns to the Flowering Inferno moniker he used for his 2010 album Dog With a...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

In Mumbai

Fraser Fifield

Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020

Already Home

The Rheingans Sisters

Anna and Rowan Rheingans were born in Sheffield and grew up in the Peak District, daughters of a violin-maker whose...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Alakazam

Boom Pam

It's a good rule of thumb to dismiss albums that have the phrase ‘shake that ass’ on more than one...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2012

Narrante

Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi

This album was simultaneously released in Iran on Hermes Records and internationally on ECM. Both of these are ‘connoisseur’ labels...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016

Making Tracks: 2019 Live Tour

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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

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

Troubles

Dirtmusic

Hugo Race and Chris Eckman have previous form in Mali. The duo behind Dirtmusic are both rock musicians of some...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013