Reviews
Tear in the River
Berlin-based bansuri player Roy Sunak's debut album, Tear in the River, can’t be faulted musically, even if its concept –...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2023
Olin Ennen
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
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
Real Rio
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
An Introduction to Dick Gaughan
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
Routes
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
Dub of Thrones
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
The Beautiful & the Actual
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
ECHO
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
Evening Star
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
