Reviews
I Was Real
This is the duo's third album, now featuring an expanded line-up with extra guitars and percussion, saxophones, viola, upright bass...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Orontes began as a Syrian-Spanish project in the city of Homs, but ceased to function when the catastrophic civil war...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Yoruba Odyssey
In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Help My Brother
For a couple of gifted instrumentalists, Eric (banjo) and Leigh Gibson (guitar) have honed their naturally nasal vocal registers into...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011
Absolutely The… Uniques
Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018
Nosotras Somos
In the male– dominated world of flamenco, all-female groups like Las Migas are still a rarity – even in Catalonia’s...
Reviewed by Russell Parton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Battleplan
Hardy's fifth album was recorded with her touring band The Midnight Watch: Blazin' Fiddles guitarist Anna Massie; Braebach bassist James...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013
Sensitive Skin
Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen says, rather surprisingly, that Sensitive Skin is the first album he has made on which...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
