Reviews
I Would Not Live Always
I Would Not Live Always opens with a brief burst of burbling electronics before the traditional ballad ‘Lovely Joan’ weighs...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Càirdeas
Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich
With guitarist Brian Ó hEadhra hailing from Newfoundland (via Dublin) and NicChoinnich from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, the duo’s third...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Festa!
North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Tall Tales
When there are seven instrumentalists on stage, and a simmering energy bubbling beneath their fingers, it must be difficult for...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Open the Gate of Zion
After recording solo ska singles at Studio One, Leonard Dillon formed The Ethiopians harmony trio in the rock steady era...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Le Bonhomme Sept Heures: The Bonesetter
Grosse Isle, the island in the St Lawrence River in Québec, was famously an immigration/quarantine depot for Irish immigrants escaping...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Un Canto por México Vol 2
The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Un Canto por México, Vol 1 (a Top of the World in November 2020,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Na Kozonga
It’s been eight years since Kinshasa’s Jupiter Bokondji released his debut album, Hotel Univers. Backed by the tight-as-a-mosquito’s-tweeter Okwess band,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Jar’a
A sound explorer and artistic orchestrator, Paolo Angeli is known for playing a prepared Sardinian guitar, a crossbreed instrument provided...
Reviewed by Cira De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
