Reviews
Telluric Translations
Quee MacArthur, Luke Plumb, Joseph Peach, Charlie Grey
Conceived amid the strangeness that became normality during lockdown, Telluric Translations is the result of four musicians communicating across the...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2022
Duo
Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018
Live at Lagny Jazz Festival
There aren’t many Cape Verdean diaspora artists with the audacity to segue between Cesaria Evora's ‘Sodade’ and the Sound of...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2014
Red Earth Dub
The Red Earth Collective featuring Soothsayers Horns
Spinning the latest release from Red Earth Records is like embarking upon a dub-wise merry-go-round; Red Earth Dub bubbles and...
Reviewed by Lucy Wilson in issue: March/2010
Some Part of Something
American-born, Scotland-based harpist Cheyenne Brown, dobro player and guitarist Dave Currie and master percussionist Dave Boyd first got together as...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Aonair
David Munnelly is a button accordion player whose musical roots in Irish music stretch far, to French, Gypsy, swing and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2019
Camino al Mar
Colombian siblings Andrea and Paulo Olarte Toro are the duo Acid Coco and this is their second album since the...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: June/2022
Hedonism
Bellowhead launch their rambunctious third album with the cautionary tale of a sailor ripped off by a prostitute, the exuberant...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Worlds Away: Chants, Songs, Rituals & Instrumentals From 33 Countries and Island Communities
You probably had to be as bonkers to compile this album as it is to try to review it. The...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2017
