Reviews
Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In
Fans of New Orleans-inspired jazziness, down-home countrified blues, and vaudevillian kazoo troupes will appreciate the skilful, old-fashioned endeavours of the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Suistamo Electricity
This is a huge piece of theatre inspired by the history of the Karelian village of Suistamo, once part of...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2016
Isula Ranni
Sharing a Sicilian background, the members of Rome-based Unavantaluna cohesively weave the island's traditional style and repertoire, sung in dialect,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2014
And If You Will Come to Me
Idan Raichel is a hugely successful Israeli composer and keyboard player with a considerable gift for catchy melodies you can't...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2019
AnásanA
While this is the first solo album from the Greek pianist, singer and composer, it’s certainly not her recording debut....
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2022
Paz en la Tierra
Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna
Musically, this is the most conventional album of Meridian Brothers main-man Eblis Álvarez's career. Colombia's traditional music has always been...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021
The Sweet Primeroses
An extraordinary and singular recording even 52 years after it first appeared, Shirley Collins' The Sweet Primeroses is one of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Kaustinen Live 2003
Thankfully someone had the good sense to blow the dust off some tapes from this fantastic concert performed a decade...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
The Living Room Sessions, Part 1
Coming fast on the heels of his Nine Decades series – which featured some brilliant tracks from the early days...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2012
