Reviews
Blyde Lasses
Frances Wilkins & Claire White
Though they’ve been performing as a duo since 2006, Blyde Lasses is the debut album by Frances Wilkins and Claire...
Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: June/2014
Sacred World of Azerbaijani Mugham
Gochag Askarov, in his mid-30s, is the new icon of mugham, the intense classical music of Azerbaijan. He was the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
Africa Moo Baalu
Africa Moo Baalu means ‘Big People of Africa,’ and the album effectively reads as an open letter to leaders in...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2014
Cool, Calm & Collected
This compilation brings together the highlights of ten years from these champions of Welsh traditional music. Allan yn y Fan...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Crossharbour
The album cover shows a young five-piece band posed on the ‘blade of light’ Millennium Bridge linking the Tate Modern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2014
Music from the Source
As they celebrate 25 years, this double CD is clear proof that Riverboat Records is Britain’s most prolific and wide-ranging...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014
OK World
The clusters of sparse piano notes that open this disc suggest a contemplative acoustic music that might confound fans of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2014
Les Chansons de Paris
It’s hard to know how to evaluate this item. The subject makes sense. Paris has been much sung about, and...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014
Libation
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
A decade after overseeing the sessions for the band’s debut album and supervising the music for the documentary that first...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014
L’Hijaz Car
This is a sophisticated, thrilling, inventive disc recorded in Pigalle in Paris and reflecting the diverse musical instruments of the...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2014
