On her debut recording, Olin Ennen (which translates in Finnish to ‘I Was’), Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbora Xu explores...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2021
Shift, the debut album from Borders-born Kirsty Law, is a fine example of the plentiful talent burgeoning from Edinburgh's session...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2015
As much as I’m reluctant to begin a review of a Brazilian compilation with a football metaphor; this double-CD really...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Master guitarist and singer Dick Gaughan has been touring and recording since 1970 and for six years, between 1975 and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Often when a band boasts of playing a mix of dub, punk, jazz, ska and Balkan music it means they...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2014
If you’re not into dub, this is an album that would never feature on your radar, so criticisms such as...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2015
This debut from the Wiltshire folk singer reveals something of a folk trend towards strong female singer-songwriters with illuminating and...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2017
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
The ten members of the American women's choir Kitka are heirs to a project that began 40 years ago in...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2019
One can imagine Bono’s wrap-around shades turning green with envy when he heard that the New Zealand duo Junelle and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
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