Reviews
Spell Songs II: Let the Light In
You might just catch the diminutive cheep of the wren at the end of ‘St Kilda Wren’ – blink and...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022
Yn Rio
Welsh-Brazilian samba might seem an unlikely musical match; even less so with the addition of the BBC National Orchestra of...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: January/February/2022
Via de la Plata
Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: January/February/2022
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Melanie Eden is an Australian performance poet and musician who does not do things by halves. Notable for her unvarnished...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2021
Live at Cooper Hall
The Derry singer is a reliably captivating live draw considering that voice, those songs, the subtle acoustic accompaniment of husband...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021
Kin
Four years after the startling experiment in looping and overdubbing of his solo debut, The Tin Fiddle, Donegal fiddler Damien...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2021
Chapel
If you’re thinking Andy Aquarius can’t be his real name, you’d be right. Andy Ozbolt is a singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2021
We Famous
Having had his career derailed by civil war and Ebola, the blind Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi was reduced to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
Shapes in Twilights of Infinity
ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: December/2021
