Reviews
Urban Myths
Swiss/English/Ashkenazi/Sephardic violinist Marc Crofts and his Klezmer Ensemble made up of clarinet, accordion and double bass make for the classic...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2025
Inconcreto & Asociados
Colombia’s pioneering Frente Cumbiero are proud tropicanibalismos, a radical, evolutionary outfit dedicated to preserving the traditional cumbia and porro rhythms...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2025
Balabeatz
It’s the fourth album in almost ten years for this band created in Toulouse when balafon virtuoso Seydou Diabaté and...
Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: July/2025
Wild Green
This London-based group have blended their atypical instrumentation of clarinet, percussion, violin and cello to engaging effect on two previous...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2025
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
