Reviews
Sir Fôn Bach
Llio Rhydderch was moved to arrange ‘Anhawdd Ymadael’, the penultimate tune of this very beautiful album, because the elegy ‘Marwnad...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019
Songs from the River Wind
Singer-songwriter and activist Eliza Gilkyson follows up her politically charged 2020 release titled, poignantly enough, 2020, with a collection of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2022
Neva/Harmony
A decade or so ago a Turkish singer covering songs from the Balkans to Armenia through Greece and Turkey...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Indonesia: Songs from the Islands of Flores &Solor
Flores and Solor are part of a chain of narrow volcanic islands located just west of Timor Leste, the administrative...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: March/2011
Néo
The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016
Uprooted
Given Minor Empire's mesmeric sound, it's a shame it's taken so long for a follow-up to their 2011 debut, Second...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: May/2018
Letters from Iraq
Rahim AlHaj learned to play the oud (lute) as a schoolboy in Iraq and went on to study under Munir...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2017
Bedlam
Kelly Oliver is a musician growing in ambition and confidence. Her first album This Land was very much a solo...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2016
