Reviews
Vertical Land
This album has a clear aim: to aurally conjure that feeling all thoughtful travellers experience, the sense of wonder at...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2015
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Light Ida Lum
In the grand tradition of the currently inactive Fiddler's Bid, whose Maurice Henderson features in this group's three-fiddle frontline, Haltadans...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
Louisiana Saturday Night Revisited
This virtual tour of the dance halls, festivals, and saloons of south-western Louisiana follows Ace’s similar recorded visit to the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2014
I Bow to you Waheguru
Australian-born Sikh singer Manika Kaur returns with a second album, giving us a less conventional presentation of shabadkirtan (Sikh devotional...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2015
Monastir
There is quite some story and a lot of work behind this album. American-born Sarah Aroeste comes from a Sephardic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2021
Sunlightsquare presents Britannia Shing-A-Ling
There’s a riot going on in Sunlightsquare. This unapologetically ambitious album from this sprawling UK collective sees some 25 musicians...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Acamar
This is a relaxed, drifting set of Arabic-European instrumental compositions and improvisations from a band based in the Netherlands. The...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2019
Beyond Karma
While in Tibet I once met a young man with a motorbike; he was wearing a leather jacket and had...
Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: November/2016
