Reviews
Sometime Between Now and Never
Punchy Balkan brass, bubbling dub rhythms and piquant punk guitar riffs jostle joyously on this first offering from Montréal-based Dumai...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: September/2024
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue:
Troubadour
Singer, Mediæval Bæbes founder and master hummer dulcimer and psaltery player, Dorothy Carter is getting a posthumous reappraisal of late....
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: November/2024
Keep It Tropical
Australian-Samoan singer, ukulele strummer and drummer Bobby Alu (aka Charles Robert Fa’agalu Wall) was born and raised in Queensland’s Gold...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: September/2024
Breathing Raga
Breathing Raga is heaven, a full dhrupad performance of raag Bhairav, from alap to bandish (composition). The singer here is...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: September/2024
Jami
This album is a double dedication, firstly to the 15th-century Sufi poetry of Jami, and secondly to the qawwali master...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2024
Digital Indigenous 08: Aliyuyo Uyoo
This is the eighth release in 1000HZ Records’ Digital Indigenous series featuring local producers who use rudimentary digital tools to...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: February/March/2025
Entre Tus Flores
Miramar – Reinaldo ‘Rei’ Alvarez, Laura Ann Singh and Marlysse Simmons – are a Puerto Rican-US trio specialising in bolero,...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: February/March/2025
Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary
Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
