Reviews
Tatar Album
Karolina Cicha is one of Poland's most accomplished and interesting vocalists, not least for the choice of music she performs....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017
Bilinmeyenle Karşılaşmak
It has been 17 years since Oğur and Demircioğlu's last album, Anadolu Beşık. The best-loved duo of Turkish folk have...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2017
American Folk Fantasies Vol 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade
Dick Connette doesn't see music in terms of white and black, urban or rural, folk or funk, blues or country....
Reviewed by Gerald Seligman in issue: October/2017
Talea
This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017
Gross National Happiness
Earlier in 2017 the Edinburgh-based nine-piece band Orkestra del Sol revealed that after 14 successful years, this would be their...
Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: October/2017
The Queen of Hearts
Offa Rex comprise English singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney and US indie rockers The Decemberists; Queen of Hearts is the result of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2017
All Soundings are True
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox
All Soundings are True picks up, in part, where Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's sparse, raw-edged, minimalist 2014 solo offering Music for...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017
Te Vaka Beats: Vol I
With ancestral links to the small Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau, Polynesian group Te Vaka originally formed in New...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
Paradis
Swedish schlager songs sung in Farsi? Behind this utterly bizarre confluence of styles is a clever comment on the state...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2017
