When guest Kaushiki Chakraborty launches into a three-and-a-half octave taan, the rapid virtuoso hallmark of her mesmeric Hindustani vocals, listeners...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2017
Song Yuzhe comes from north-east China and he is the composer of this dynamic set of songs and instrumentals. On...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band was born to party. Their unstoppable, urgent playing, mixed with rock-style stage performances has earned...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2015
The debut album from Sam Mabbett, Michael Biggins and Callum Convoy is an exciting and fresh piece of trad fusion....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2022
Lotus Wight is the nom du guerre of Toronto native Sam Allison, a songster, folklorist, poet, fiddler, banjo historian and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2016
Quantic Presenta: Flowering Inferno
He might be plain old Will Holland to the authorities, but the man known as Quantic has burned his stage...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2021
Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Described by some as a Portuguese Billie Holiday, jazz-trained Luísa Sobral uses her fifth release to become a kind of...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2019
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