Reviews

The Endless Coloured Ways

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

There is a new biography of Nick Drake out on the shelves, and this double set comprises 23 covers of...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Substrat

Guillem Ballaz

Guillem Ballaz is a musician and musical historian who has set out to explore and revitalise the Catalan folk songs...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Curannera

Yarákä

This is an album which is embedded very much within a particular place, Taranto in Southern Italy, where the three...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Stories of Stonia

Mari Kalkun

Singer Mari Kalkun is a native speaker of Võro, an endangered South Estonian language, not easy even for speakers of...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

From Skopje With Love

Baklava

This is an album whose appeal grows with repeated plays. Like many artists from the Balkans, vocalist Elena Hristova's first...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Stretching Skyward

Gnoss

Gnoss (like Talisk, Eriska and TRIP) are part of Glasgow's lively music scene, though the band originated in Scotland's Northern...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Gwiad

Jean-Luc Thomas & Gab Faure

Jean-Luc Thomas and Gab Faure are a French duo who play flute and violin – helped by occasional hand percussion...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Kolkhozoy Traktor

Shono

If you’re a fan of the great festival-pleasing, throat-singing Yat-Kha, then this should be on your radar. Shono's founder, Alexander...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Lubber's Hole

She Shanties

The clue to the USP with She Shanties is in the name: women singing sea shanties. This is their third...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

LL25

The London Lasses

There are 16 musicians supporting The London Lasses in celebrating their 25 years together on LL25, a generous 14-track album...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023