Reviews

Biester

17 Hippies

17 Hippies’ previous release, Titus Träumt (2013), was an album for children to which the Berlin collective brought all their...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015

Sun God

Sunday Driver

British fusion band Sunday Driver’s latest release is their first since the EP Flo in 2014. While Flo was a...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/September/2022

Sweet Tooth

Mali Obomsawin

Here's a heady blend of ancestral Native American and Canadian First Nations culture and the emotive energy of contemporary free...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2023

To Belfast...

Conor Caldwell

A ruminative opening introduces swelling overdubbed violins; Conor Caldwell's fiddle melody-line rides atop their bank of drones much like the...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

YES

Banter

You can sometimes tell quite a lot about a band by the company they keep and this trio's biography boasts...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2017

Hillevi

Emma Ahlberg Ek

Concept albums are a rare thing in folk music but Hillevi is a fine example; it is the result of...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Ta Ki Dum

Ta Ki Dum

Ta, ki and dum are three bol (mnemonic syllables) taken from the Indian technique of speaking rhythms that define the...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2018

Tientalaw

Zani Diabaté & Les Héritiers

Zani Diabaté's first name may not be as instantly recognisable as his last (many of the Diabaté dan are griots)...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2012

Andalusia of Love

Marcel Khalife

I thought I had become a bit tired of Marcel Khalife's musical activities. Popular as ever throughout the Arab world,...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2017

Sabiduria/Wisdom

Eddie Palmieri

Multi-Grammy-winning Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri celebrated his 80th birthday last December. This is his first album in...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017