Reviews
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Coup of Gods
Yet again risking imprisonment in his native Iran for releasing this album, Mehdi Rajabian’s latest effort showcases Persian tonalities, a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022
Sixth Sense
The Taal Tantra Experience with Tanmoy Bose
This is Taal Tantra’s second album, in which Indian and German musicians combine raga and jazz, fusing European and Indian...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Round 2
From the first notes this sounds like Nobel Prize material, if the committee ever decided that making people dance deserved...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
In Good Company
Within the first couple of minutes of listening to the first track on In Good Company, bluegrass aficionados and banjo...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012
Latin Noir: Everything Happens on the Beach
Noir and ‘beach’: two of the great clichés of cultural revisionism. The chamamé rhythms of Chango Spasiuk, Carlos Puebla’s song...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2013
Tobar an Cheoil
Two of the purest voices in Irish traditional music – the harp and the flute – combine to beguiling effect on...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022
Mahal
Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022
Radial
Griselda Sanderson plays the nyckelharpa, a keyed Swedish fiddle instrument with sympathetic strings that dates back 600 years. A short...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
Force of the Wind
SOYUZ, which translates as ‘Union’ is a creative collective from Belarus, and this third album is definitely true to the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2022
