Reviews
The Spectrum Project
Award-winning fiddler Marie Fielding’s fourth album is a curious, but engaging, experiment. Exploring the organic nature of the creative process...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
Les Voies du Monde
This group of French avant-garde jazz improvisers are not always an easy listen, but there are rewards to be had...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: April/2018
The Sound of Telemark
Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021
44070
This American quintet play Gypsy swing in what initially appears to be quite a straight-ahead way, but which on further...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2017
Under the Shade of Violets
The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015
Arzu: Songs of the Uyghurs
Sanubar Tursun comes from a family of musicians and has performed since childhood. The Uyghur people live in north-west China...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean
Though quite pleasant listening, this CD isn’t a comprehensive cross-section of Mediterranean music, but rather a disparate collection of genres...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2013
Live at the Old Fruitmarket
Live at the Old Fruitmarket marks an incredible ten years for the band, a decade that has seen many changes...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
Not Leaving Quietly
Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2021
3 for Joy
Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin
This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
