The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...
Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Conceived by Australia-based Iranian tar (long-necked lute) virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi, Eishan Ensemble is a rare attempt in fusing...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2018
Montréal has been at the forefront of club culture in Canada for some time now: from multi-arts practice in Ausgang...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2021
Fiddler Brian Rooney first met banjoist John Carty in London in the early 1970s. At that time there was a...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
Sam Carter released his debut album, Keepsakes, three years ago, demonstrating an advanced guitar -picking skill honed from the mentorship...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012
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