Reviews
Himno Vertical
Rocío Márquez is an established singer, experimentalist and PhD graduate intent on refracting flamenco through a 21st-century lens. Steeped in...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Mirrormouth
Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Poems & Non-Fiction
Newcastle-based singer, musician and disability activist Ruth Lyon's Poems & Non-Fiction is a stonking slice of indie-folk, layered with lush...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Cast Your Fate To The Wind: The Complete Decca UK Recordings
Marianne Faithfull was a complex lady. She was not just the languid pop star who recorded ‘As Tears Go By’...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
El Viejo Caminante
Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José María Saluzzi
The Argentinian father-and-son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi, who play bandoneon and classical guitar respectively, are joined here...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
Welsh acoustic finger stylist Gwenifer Raymond's second album, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020), saw a huge leap forward from...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Gabriele Poso presents Ritmo Italiano: ‘Unspoken Sounds of Italian Tamburo’
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
One of Mr Bongo's stocks-in-trade is unusual compilations, and this one is certainly out of the ordinary. The Sardinian compiler,...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Koren
Born out of encounters between field songs, grand opera and Latin music in a New Orleans port (among other things),...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
It Was All Heart
Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Ward Dhoore has been touring globally for over a decade in numerous projects, including string trio...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Whaling Women
Riding the wave (pun intended) of the sea shanty trend, this is the second release from the all-female group hailing...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
