Reviews
RAIO
Brazilian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Felipe Puperi delivers sonic gold on his third album as Tagua Tagua. Released via Brooklyn’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2025
Tales of Earth and Sun
The Iranian group Rastak have been going for over 25 years, although in recent years they’ve relocated from Iran to...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2025
Maa palaa
This is renowned Finnish singer, fiddle player and jouhikko (bowed lyre) virtuoso Päivi Hirvonen’s third solo album away from the...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: July/2025
Turnstone
A turnstone is a wading bird that upends pebbles to feed on what it finds beneath. It’s a fitting title...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Elkwort
Nottingham-based Ben McElroy’s Elkwort summons up an atmospheric, filmic soundscape. This cinematic quality is echoed in the inclusion of an...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2025
Mohini
Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Mosin Khan Kawa
Norway-based Sudeshna Bhattacharya is one of very few female sarod players, having begun training aged just eight, initially with her...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: June/2025
Independance
Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) is one of the world’s youngest nations, coming into being in 1975 upon gaining independence from...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2025
Wild and Clear and Blue
What started out in 2014 looking like a one-off or short-lived supergroup of Americana singer-songwriters – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2025
Compter les dents
The 11 songs on this superbly performed set are drawn from something many of us have handled in our lives:...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2025
