Reviews
Haunted Bird
Iain Morrison & Daibhidh Martin
Iain Morrison hails from the small village of Back on the Isle of Lewis. Having spent years trying to make...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011
Acatao
The ancient link between Indian and Andalusian music – especially flamenco – via migrating Roma people has long been an...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2017
The Seer
The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odhar, was a legendary 17th-century Gaelic prophet whose writings are the focus for this moody new...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2017
Tiritando
Antonio Gonzalez Batista helped pioneer the fusion of flamenco and Latin rumba rhythms that has had such an enduring impact...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Strange Days
Former Transglobal Underground singer and BBC Radio 3 World Music Award winner Natacha Atlas is well known for combining electro-acoustic...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Låtar II: Swedish Folk Tunes
Swedish folk tunes is what it says on the tin, and, indeed that's what you get. But these two exceptional...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Ink of the Rosy Morning
Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo’s debut for Topic Records is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist
London-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi ventures here into the porous terrain that lies somewhere between folk, classical, jazz and improvisation....
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2013
Escape That
This is Sweeney's first album of self-composed songs, its 11 tracks comprised of more than 20 pieces, written during lockdown...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
