Reviews
Parasol Peak
Since popularising the hang drum – a melodic percussion instrument, and cousin to the steel pan – at the turn...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018
Against All Tides
Lyrically engaging, harmonically alluring and instrumentally honed to a crystalline sharpness, Harpeth Rising ascend to the upper echelon of the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Kamale Blues
That Harouna Samaké has been Salif Keita's kamalengoni player for the past 17 years tells you all you need to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
Neath the Gloaming Star
West Lothian singer Hannah Rarity had already toured with Irish-American band Cherish the Ladies when she won the BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018
Laws of Motion
Karine Polwart with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson
Following hot on the heels of A Pocket of Wind Resistance, Polwart's album to accompany her Wind Resistance theatre project,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2018
Förgänglighet
Åkervinda are a Swedish and Danish quartet of accomplished female vocalists. Trained in jazz, the group also have a deep...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: December/2018
Long Shot/Battle of the Giants
The Pioneers were a Jamaican vocal trio who formed in the early 1960s, shifting line-ups and achieving little success until...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2018
Carousel
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, The Pine Hearts are a bluegrass trio with a penchant for expertly conjured, though largely conventional,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Falling
The Fire Doves, a UK duo consisting of the two singers Sebastiana Black and Birgitta Campbell, one playing accordion and...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2018
Moçambique
Born in Maputo 52 years ago but now resident in Sweden, Celso Paco released his excellent debut album Dugongo in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018
