Reviews

Joy!Guru

Debashish Bhattacharya

‘Here Comes the Moon King’, the 12-minute opening track, sets the mood. It begins with a prelude of tingling stillness;...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Field and Dyke

Danny Pedler & Greg Russell

I grew up in Herefordshire, a place that, like South Holland in Lincolnshire, missed the post-war migrants who came to...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Silk Baroque

Wu Wei & Holland Baroque

This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...

Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

White Night

Stephan Micus

The ‘white night’ of this album's title comes from an anonymous Japanese poem about a cuckoo that sings all the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

História do Choro

Duo Violão + 1

História do Choro is an ambitious, meticulous and well-executed journey through the history of an iconic Brazilian genre led by...

Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Voices and Percussions

Boca de Tambor

Brazilian percussionist, arranger and composer Silvano Michelino's project Boca de Tambor is a journey rich in timbres, rhythms and textures,...

Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Cuatro

Las Migas

Flamenco dance has been undergoing a quasi-feminist revival for some time, as virtuosos like Sara Baras, María Pagés and Rafaela...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Safe in Sound

Daryl Shawn

Safe in Sound is the fifth album in a long-established series of self-releases by the solo acoustic guitarist Daryl Shawn,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Gákti

Vassvik

Sámi joik singing can be atmospheric and otherworldly, but Norway's Torgeir Vassvik pushes it to an eerie extreme. He chants...

Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: Aug/Sep/2019