Reviews
All We Have is Now
Self-proclaimed Highland neo-trad quintet Elephant Sessions are a curious mix of traditional roots, electronic, rock and funk. Comprising Euan Smille...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2017
Nobody Knows You
One thing that quickly becomes apparent about the Steep Canyon Rangers is that they don’t quite have the degree of...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012
Mali in Oak
In 2015 kora and cello player Tunde Jegede and South African guitarist Derek Gripper played a candlelit concert as a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017
Stupid Mountain Too Big
‘We call it stringband music because it's just too tedious to try and get into whether it's old-time, bluegrass, ragtime,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Alasdair Roberts
In the past few years, Roberts has released the double album Wonder Working Stone, recorded an album with Scottish poet...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2015
Maldivian Traditional Music From V Keyodhoo
The remote nature of the Maldives and its Indian Ocean islands has meant that, over the centuries, its inhabitants have...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2015
To Know Without Knowing
Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience
This is the second album that Mulatu Astatke, one of the fathers of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with ‘BJX’, the 12-piece...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Antiphony of the Trees
Laura Cannell | Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
Antiphony of the Trees, the seventh record from Laura Cannell, saw a change of scenery for the composer and improvisor....
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2022
Now We are Four
Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021
Faya
New Yorker Joe Driscoll (now based in the UK and part of the One Taste collective) and Sekou Kouyaté, the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
