Reviews
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016
Dance Moderno
In the early 1960s, before swingers everywhere were listening to the version of ‘The Look of Love’ by Brasil ‘66...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017
Marni: Music for Slow Television
This is the soundtrack to a fascinating two-and-a-half hour observational documentary that chronicles the painting of a large intricate work,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021
The West African Blues Project
The easiest way to describe The West African Blues Project is that it is exactly what it says in its...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Upside Down
Mauricio Maestro & Nana Vasconcelos
Touted as an epistle from a ‘ time when people dared to make liberated records.’ this collaboration between two Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2012
Skir
As all the tracks here are instrumental, you can only imagine what lies behind them. Thankfully, we have the short...
Reviewed by Elisavet Sotiriadou in issue: June/2010
Soul of My City
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
From the gleeful rockabilly throb of ‘Let's Go Back in Time, Man’ via infectious celebrations of cross-dressing (‘Life is a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2019
Gràs
Hailing from the windswept Outer Hebridean island of South Uist, MacInnes is one of the finest singers in the Gaelic...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2015
Lament for Syria
A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
