Reviews
Chasing Sparks
Fine instrumentalists such as the fiddler Jeremy Kittel will sound good even when the material they're playing isn't quite worthy...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Tempestad
This one takes me back to the 90s, when record labels threw money at bands to make arena-filling rock that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Testvériség (Brotherhood)
Slightly confusingly, the two Hungarian cimbalom players in this quartet are not brothers – I suspect one cimbalom player is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019
Gakondo
This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Despegue
I never thought I'd end up having to reconsider La Chiva Gantiva's debut album as ‘polite’. This is a band...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sheear
Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015
O Fado em Nós
For quite some time, it looked like Pedro Moutinho would never live up to the rather unfair job of stepping...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
The Thrush in the Storm
It's been five years since the last studio offering from Irish supergroup Dervish, which makes The Thrush in the Storm...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Water Street
Devon-born, Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Tom Oakes created this entirely solo recording in adversity after his prized Grinter flute shattered onstage on...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2022
