Reviews
No Land
Olivier Mellano, Brendan Perry & Bagad’ Cesson
Brendan Perry's voice is a deep, sonorous instrument that carries all before it: a strong tidal river without a shore....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
In Time
The most impressive aspect of this tight debut from the New York-based Akshara Music Ensemble is their brilliant manipulation of...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2018
The Worst is Yet to Come: Best Of 1995-2017
Norway's Los Plantronics have been rocking for more than 20 years now, hence this double CD or double-vinyl compilation. The...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
Deadly Hearts
A tribute album of cover versions of iconic Australian indigenous-oriented songs that have impacted on younger Aboriginal musicians, Deadly Hearts...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018
Rais
Tambu music from Curaçao is a drum-based genre that has incredible significance for the islanders. It is a particularly social...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2018
Franklin
In 1845, the 129-strong crew of Captain John Franklin's expedition to discover the famed North-West Passage vanished in the icy...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018
Taos
Efrén López, Stelios Petrakis & Bijan Chemirani
In a trio setting there is little space to hide, so it is fortunate that each of the musicians here...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2018
Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me: Concerning Love, Madness & Obsession
Bedford's 2011 album, Tales from the Weeping Willow, focused on the former Orbital singer's penchant for folk and country, featuring...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
Makhorka
Formed in 1998 in France by a trio of buskers from St Petersburg, Russia, Dobranotch originally played Irish music. Perhaps...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018
Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine
Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2018
