Reviews
Woven Landscapes
Karavan Sarai is a band led by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Narayan Sijan, who plays a variety of Turkish and...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Lost
For this new recording with her partner Graham Fitkin, Scottish harpist Ruth Wall employs both Gaelic wire-strung harp and concert...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
New Cities
New Cities is the third album from a collective exploring the possibilities that emerge from adapting source material from the...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Os
Os opens with a familiar tune turned on its head. ‘See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes!’, Handel's triumphant, war-celebrating melody becomes...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Re-Think
Billy Hill with Ramon Goose & Friends
Sixteen-year-old fiddler Billy Hill has been performing at folk festivals since he was nine, supporting the likes of Eliza Carthy...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
We Are Going to Bremen to be Musicians
Geoff Berner is an accordionist, singer and songwriter. This album quickly establishes that he's Jewish and Canadian – both subjects...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Transglobal Roots Fusion
In 2012, the Swedish folk group Kolonien set up Världens Band as an experiment, creating an unlikely mash-up that combines...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Solo & Indrė
Cross-cultural kora and string collaborations have been rather in vogue for the last couple of years, and for good reason:...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Different Orbits
Groove is at the centre of everything London six-piece J-Sonics do. Whether genre-hopping through soul, funk or samba, this jazz...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
