Reviews
Extra-Deluxe-Supreme
The nine-piece New York-based ensemble Hazmat Modine may just be my favourite American roots band and their third studio album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
So Familiar
So Familiar is the follow-up to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 2013 debut duo album, Love has Come for You....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2015
The Wild Atlantic Way: A Journey in Irish Music
Launched in 2014, and claiming to be the world's longest coastal touring route, the Wild Atlantic Way threads itself along...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2015
Woody Pines
New Hampshire-born Woody Pines mines the American folk, ragtime, country blues, hillbilly and proto-rock’n’roll songbooks: the songs were spilling out...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2015
Kerwanê
Kardeş Türküler celebrate their 21st anniversary with this ‘Best Of’ compilation. They have become such a feature of the musical...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: December/2015
Under the Shade of Violets
The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015
The Three Forges
The Three Forges is further evidence that gamelan is on its way to being a global music, a set of...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: December/2015
The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters
The African-American songster tradition was for many years regarded as a poor relation of the Delta blues: its repertoire of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
What are Those for Songs!
Otava Yo have existed since 2004 and are popular across much of the former Soviet Bloc. The six-piece are essentially...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
The Iqrit Files
The Palestinian refugee camps of the Middle East are a hotbed of musical creativity, although there are few outlets for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
