Reviews
Earthcycle
This third ‘mixtape album’ from Orchestra of the Swan continues the classical ensemble’s adventures into bending and breaking genre boundaries....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2024
Ginga
The fifth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Flavia Coelho is brimming with uplifting, catchy melodies, which have become her signature appeal....
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: July/2024
Pine Tree Flyers
The Pine Tree Flyers’ full-length debut album proudly waves the banner of New England (US) roots music. Fundamentally, this fiddle-based...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2024
Pulled by the Stars
‘Clash Vooar’ is Manx for Big Groove, and the band’s second album includes a batch of sturdy grooves, along with...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2024
Chronika
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars
After nearly 15 years playing trumpet in America’s seminal klezmer band The Klezmatics (with whom he is still active), Frank...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2024
Śaranam
This is the third album from the Sydney-based trio. Śaranam means ‘to take refuge’ in Sanskrit and this is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: January/February/2024
A.O.E.I.U (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Florence Adooni is a singer born to the Frafra people of northeast Ghana. She grew up performing in church choirs...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Making Moves
Although it’s only five years after their debut album, this slow coach follow-up still makes the Santrofi eight-piece sound like...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2025
Indumiso YabeNguni
Ntuthuko Ndebele – aka Mthuthu – began setting his lyrics to house music in collaboration with various South African DJs...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025
High Horse
If beautiful, genre-melding compositions that blur the lines between bluegrass, roots, jazz and chamber music performed by a group of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025
