Reviews
Fu Chronicles
This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Blikkspor
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Nim Dong
Conceived by Australia-based Iranian tar (long-necked lute) virtuoso and composer Hamed Sadeghi, Eishan Ensemble is a rare attempt in fusing...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: November/2018
SMS for Location, Vol 4
Montréal has been at the forefront of club culture in Canada for some time now: from multi-arts practice in Ausgang...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2021
At Complete Ease
Fiddler Brian Rooney first met banjoist John Carty in London in the early 1970s. At that time there was a...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Funeral Songs
There's a bitter aftertaste to this album. The latest in Glitterbeat's acclaimed Hidden Musics series, it should be an absorbing...
Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020
The Wilderness Yet
Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
The No Testament
Sam Carter released his debut album, Keepsakes, three years ago, demonstrating an advanced guitar -picking skill honed from the mentorship...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012
YO
A visual and aural treat from Havana's proudest son, who lays himself bare on YO (that's ‘I’ in Spanish) with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2012
