Reviews
Cumbia Cumbia
This album invites the question: do we need to recycle the already recycled? The tip-top material here of ever-popular cumbia...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2012
They Will Have to Kill Us First: Original Soundtrack
The debut film from director Johanna Schwartz, They Will Have to Kill Us First, was released in 2015 and compellingly...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
Caricias
Slovenian singer-songwriter Katja Šulc’s career began in 2008 with a homage to Mila Kačič, a poet celebrated in her homeland,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
L’amour Fou
It’s been 50 years, incredibly, since Françoise Hardy’s first single introduced a demurely beautiful Parisienne to the top ranks of...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: June/2013
Caçador de Infância
Grazie Wirtti & Matias Arriazu
ECM's Carmo imprint is named after the birthplace of one of the parent company's most prolific artists, Egberto Gismonti. After...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Tall Tales
When there are seven instrumentalists on stage, and a simmering energy bubbling beneath their fingers, it must be difficult for...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Radiant Others
We are, perhaps, most familiar with the sound of a clarinet or violin taking the lead in instrumental klezmer music....
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2018
Seinn
Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac
For lovers of traditional Nova Scotian folk music, it doesn't get much better than this collaboration between Scottish Gaelic singer...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2013
Grind
The second album from the 11-piece Treacherous Orchestra sees the boys at their raucous best. Grind reflects the band's new,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2015
Né So
It's easy to read too much into the circumstances surrounding the making of a record, but it's clear that some...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
