Reviews
What If
With its searingly fast tempo and hard-swinging arrangement, ‘Cavebop’ sets the bar high for What If, which is perhaps the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/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
AMzer: Seasons
No one could dispute that Breton musician Alan Stivell almost single-handedly revived global interest in the Breton harp and, indeed,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Let Me Out
War is not always amenable to great art. Feelings of horror, loss and grief give rise to a sense that...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023
Revel and Rhyme
This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2020
The Peacock's Feathers
Established stars in their native Germany, five-piece Fleadh's last album, 2013's The Cleggan Bay Disaster, was festooned with awards, picking...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2016
A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79
Soundway are on a roll at the moment, with new projects and compilations such as this that steadily mine the...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
They Say Humans Exist
Jacob Young, David Rothenberg & Sidiki Camara
Three musicians from three continents got together in a studio in the woods outside Oslo for two days of collective...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2020
A World of Masks
The Heliocentrics rose to prominence through high-profile collaborations with old masters such as Ethio-jazz king Mulatu Astatke, Afrobeat saxophonist Orlando...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2017
Dori Freeman
Dori Freeman is a singer-songwriter from the town of Galax, Virginia – a tiny place in the Appalachian mountains and...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2016
