Reviews
Lawless, Winged & Unconfined
Clarinettist Merlin Shepherd, a central figure of the British klezmer crowd, presents us here with a new band, Hamsa, and...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
The Twelve Pins
This instrumental trio of Peter Browne (accordion), Lucas González (guitar) and Robbie Harris (hand percussion) begin their first album with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015
The Faux Paws
With a sound soaked in the contra dance and bluegrass tradition, The Faux Paws (brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2021
The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove
The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014
Dentro Desse Mar
The accordion might sound neither very dancy nor particularly occult, but this quartet from Águeda near Porto do something with...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2019
¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!
Old-time music – that pre-modern amalgam of all the most exciting bits of 19th and early 20th century enter¬tainment careering...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson, venerable master of the concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes, has been playing the music of the north-east of England...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2017
The Songs of Edward Capern the Postman Poet
Edward Capern only had four months of schooling. He lived much of his life in the north Devon town of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2017
Vengeance
Benjamin Biolay has carved himself a niche in the top rank of French popular music, not by genius, but by...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: July/2013
Our Island
When the debut Small Island Big Song album was released in 2018, it was rightly hailed as a mini masterpiece....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2022
