Reviews
Audacity (Live)
Audacity (Live) offers a spirited world fusion akin to that of the Silk Road Ensemble, of whom percussionist Shanahan belongs....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2025
Transcendent Phoenix
This is the debut album of Lucina Yue, a player of the Chinese harp, konghou. Mastered by multi-Grammy-winning engineer Alan...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2025
Thar Ro Prem
Mai Dhai is an elder (reports of her age span from 81 to 106) of the Manganiyar, a community of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2025
Laments
Independent vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and somatic healer Laurel Premo offers a quietly stirring catharsis in Laments, a grief work in four...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026
Safe, Sensible and Sane
Despite both having won pretty much every award going for the banjo, Steve Martin and Alison Brown have never collaborated...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Voisinages
Le Vent du Nord have been at the forefront of the Quebecois progressive folk movement for more than two decades,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Eu Vou Morrer de Amor ou Resistir
Daughter of a thoroughbred fado family, Carminho is also a completely modern artist, weaned on Queen and Caetano Veloso. Talented...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: January/2026
Jogkauns
Jasdeep is perhaps the leading British sitarist under 40. Surprisingly, this is only his second album, three years after his...
Reviewed by Oliver Craske in issue: January/2026
Humanicity
The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
