Reviews
Carpe Afternoon
Loco Ironico are vocalist Joe Cang and pianist Matteo Saggese. I know nothing about these men although photos on the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Mercy
The London African Gospel Choir
The London African Gospel Choir are fresh from an extremely well-received tour that showcased their rendition of Paul Simon's Graceland...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2019
Phantom Songs
Ten albums and over 1,500 gigs later, the Berliners are still all over the map. When the Iron Curtain was...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011
Forabandit
Forabandit is a meeting between the French troubadour and the Turkish agik tradition – the music of travelling bards. It...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan & Edgar Meyer
It's almost a decade since the adventurous classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with bluegrass fiddle/banjo player Stuart Duncan, double...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Yidishe Lider
Yidishe Lider is the fruit of an extraordinary project to honour the life and work of Arkady Gendler, who was...
Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: June/2013
Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind
The 13-track setlist for Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind, which was recorded live in the Watershed Productions studio...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2016
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
This Appearing World
Marilyn Crispell, Richard Nunns & Jeff Henderson
This adventurous collaborative recording teams American avant– garde pianist and composer Marilyn Crispell with two Kiwis – reed player Jeff...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2013
