Reviews

Naming & Blaming

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra

This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Couteau / Haute Forme

Super Parquet

Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Blessed Sadness

Antoni O''Breskey

Antoni O'Breskey has long been a prolific, border-denying, genre-splicing presence in his adopted Ireland. Italian-born with Argentinian roots, his musical...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2021

Plaza Francia Orchestra

Plaza Francia Orchestra

While they were, respectively, the keyboardist/programmer and guitarist of Gotan Project, Swiss-raised Christoph H Müller and Argentinian Eduardo Makaroff helped...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018

Orígenes

Sotomayor

Since emerging from Mexico Cith's indie music scene a few years ago, the brother-sister duo Sotomayor have formulated their own...

Reviewed by Patrick Mcmahon in issue: May/2020

Plaint of Lapwing

Alasdair Roberts & James Green

Alasdair Roberts has a busy and productive muse – with a long line of striking solo records behind him, recent...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016

Kohesia

Kate Pass

Kohesia provides an unlikely connection between Perth and Persia. Inspired by ex-pat Iranian musicians such as vocalist Tara Tiba, Australian...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2018

A Delicate Game

Top Floor Taivers

Comprising singer Claire Hastings, pianist Tina Jordan Rees, fiddler Gráinne Brady and Heather Downie on clarsach (harp), Top Floor Taivers’...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2017

Doran

Doran

Freak-folk quartet Doran took a unique tack when writing their self-titled debut. In January 2019, in an attic in rural...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/February/2022

Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet

Georgi Koev

This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2016