Reviews

Side Show

The Burns Unit

Somewhere in the middle of a transatlantic crossing between Scotland and Canada, there’s a musical meeting point of players and...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Soisín

Kíla

Kíla have stepped away from the dance floor and into the chill-out room with the meditative, Japanoiserie of Soisín, their...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

The Lucky Smile

Rachel Hair

The Lucky Smile is a sparkling recording centred around Rachel Hair’s pristine, beautifully detailed harp-playing, the tune selections by turns...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Finesse

Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole

Evan Christopher is one of the US’s foremost young jazz musicians. Resident in New Orleans, he has worked with musicians...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Dois Selos e um Carimbo

Deolinda

How can you top a debut album that has spent over 100 weeks in the Portuguese charts, powered by the...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Forecast

The Old Dance School

Anyone who likes hand-crafted folk music, dramatic pop songs and excellent musicianship is in for a special treat. The Old...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Putan de Cançon

Moussu T e lei Jovents

The latest album by the neo-troubadours of Marseille, or to be more precise, the adjacent port of La Ciotat, opens...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Rendez-vous Barbès

Orchestre National de Barbès

The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Diversions

Dàimh

Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...

Reviewed in issue October/2010

Manuia!

Ukulele Club de Paris

A re-release of a cult album from almost ten years ago, Manuia! plunges us into an aural world of singular...

Reviewed in issue October/2010