Opening with the sweetly rousing ‘Sunrise’, Mhairi Hall and Patsy Reid’s Contours of Cairngorm is an accomplished and polished collaboration....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Bosky and fecund, the second album from Northumberland's Brothers Gillespie is steeped in the gently lilting folk sensibility and travelling-man...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
And so the Balkan train rolls on. Berlin label Eastblok – one of the first to the party with DJ...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Kareyce Fotso is an African renaissance woman. A bio–chemistry graduate with a diploma in broadcasting and photography, the Cameroonian singer...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Old-time fiddler and banjo player Ben Townsend pays homage to a revered master of West Virginia fiddling, Melvin Wine, on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014
Self-styled ‘musician explorer’ Axel Moon and old friend Niko Shin formed Ko Shin Moon in 2017 after the former had...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: November/2022
Belgian saxophonist Thys has assembled a beautifully balanced quintet for an uplifting fusion of European jazz and Middle-Eastern modes. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021
From Estonia, Eva Väljaots plays the kannel, one of the plucked zither-like instruments shared by the Finno-Ugric cultures around the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2022
Tidiane Thiam is a photographer, visual artist and guitarist from Podor, the dusty home town of Baaba Maal in northern...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
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