Reviews
Seekers and Finders
What's left to say about Gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello? Not much on the strength of this, their seventh album....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017
Ketan
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017
Dead Man's Dance
Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017
A Day a Month
It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017
Windrose
A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017
Sven Nyhus Kvintett
The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017
Ladilikan
This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017
Strangers
The Teesside vocal trio of Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes have captured hearts – and awards – with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017
Bon Bon
Somewhere in the polyglot roots garden, twined between Cajun, indie-folk, R&B, Gypsy jazz and a few other things, reside Dai...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
African Salsa Orchestra
This eponymous debut celebrates three years since the African Salsa Orchestra was formed by Michel Pinheiro, long-time Beninese leader of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2017
