Reviews
Run Kitty Run
Big, brassy, bold and Bollywood, The Bombay Royale do not hold back. Run Kitty Run, the Melbourne 11-piece's third studio...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
Jedid
Osama Abdulrasol is a qanun (zither) player and composer whose fusion style blends Middle Eastern, Western classical and jazz influences,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2018
Monarch
Listen to the whirling guitar riffs, pulsing harmonica shouts and virile vocals on ‘Little Bird’, the opening track of this...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2018
Ar Baradoz: Sacred Songs of Lower Brittany
Yann-Fañch Kemener, Florence Rousseau & Aldo Ripoche
The Breton music most familiar to us tends to be forthright: bagpipe bands, the talabard (bombard) or choirs singing lustily....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
La Part du Hasard
Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018
Nahnou Houm
Siwan is the name of a collective of musicians that Norwegian jazz keyboardist and composer Jon Balke has assembled for...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: March/2018
Hoolima
The allure of bluegrass, from its early beginnings in Kentucky, has spread far and wide, leaving its influence in many...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2018
Kamalamba
Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts
Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018
Shakespeare Songs
Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
