Reviews
Seeds Are Sewing
Listening to this on the day the UK Supreme Court stripped trans people of their rights was bittersweet. Alex Etchart’s...
Reviewed by Rosie Solomon in issue: July/2025
Songs for the Trees
A rich and deeply mytho-poetic set of 13 songs drawing on Ogham (the Druidic ‘tree alphabet’) and evoking some of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2025
Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest
There is a running joke in Brazil that the state of Acre doesn’t really exist, an idea based on its...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: July/2025
Froggy’s Demise
EZRA is what you get when a group of ridiculously talented musicians combine all of the different “grasses” – bluegrass,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
Bostântchi/Live in Tehran
Rokh Quartet started out in 2021 with the aim of “bringing to life the multifaceted essence of Persian classical music,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Doing Things Right
Jim Kweskin & The Berlin Hall Saturday Night Revue
Younger listeners may recall the name-check of Jim Kweskin by Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025
Ylh Bye Bye
A taut tension between tradition and the wide-open possibilities of the future underpins Ylh Bye Bye, the debut album by...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2025
Sing Yonder 2
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
Following 2023’s excellent debut collection, Sing Yonder 2 presents a second superb collection of songs (11–20) from the Roud Index,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2025
Tiya
Singer, pianist and composer Lilas Lafleur cut her musical teeth as a backing singer for her uncle, Congolese soukous guitar...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2025
Fontana Rosa
Multi-instrumentalist Carwyn Ellis returns with an all-star Celtic/Latin line-up featuring Venezuelan percussionist Baldo Verdú, American drummer Shawn Lee, the Isle...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
