Reviews

Amame

Mari Boine & Bugge Wesseltoft

It’s nearly 35 years since Sámi singer Boine recorded Gula Gula, the album which brought the world’s attention to her...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Komorebi Live

Dyad (Didier Laloy & Adrien Tyberghein)

The partnership of double bass with diatonic accordion might seem as unlikely as a romance between a Great Dane and...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Lullabies from Scotland

Claire Hastings

There are some lovely, sparkly moments in this self-descriptive album from 2015's BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Tarkabarka

Balamuc

Balamuc are a London-based band with a global membership and a clear interest in the music of the Roma, especially...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Days Like Now

Huw Marc Bennett

This is a super cool album from the Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett. Having been widely praised for...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Toda un Alegría

Adriano Galante

It's very difficult to pigeonhole the music of Barcelona's Adriano Galante, although ‘understated Hispanophone quietism with a very distant nod...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Shorelines

Nuala Kennedy

Shorelines, the fifth solo album from the Irish multi-instrumentalist is an exciting, inspiring and thoroughly enchanting listen. A collection of...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Sula

Dàimh

Scots supergroup Dàimh return with an album inspired by the landscape and history of the band's Hebridean connection, and especially...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Music for Shepherds and Sultans

Michalis Kouloumis, Tristan Driessens, Miriam Encinas

The ensemble here is violin (Michalis Kouloumis), oud (Tristan Driessens) and frame drums (Miriam Encinas), and the idea is to...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Preludes

Flaer

On this succinct debut, multi-instrumentalist and painter Realf Heygate attempts to map the rural psycho-geography of his experiences growing up...

Reviewed in issue October/2023