Pearly Clouds are a trio comprising American guitarist Gary Lucas, Hungarian singer Enikő Szabó and jazz saxophonist Tóni Dezső. Lucas...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2016
Hailing from Orkney, and mentored by Douglas Montgomery (The Chair, Saltfishforty), the all-female group Fara is comprised of Jennifer Austin...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016
Anyone who's read Child of Tibet, the moving autobiography of Tibetan singer-songwriter Soname [reviewed in #39], will appreciate the extent...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: March/2013
This is the sixth album (excluding a retrospective compilation) of Ricardo Lemvo's Afro-Cuban music – a blend of salsa with...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
The Los Angelesbased violinist Chris Murphy has self-released a prolific raft of albums under his own name on his Teahouse...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2020
It's been a productive few years for the acclaimed and distinctive English art-folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
MZAZA are a six-piece band with an Australian-European line-up and an aesthetic that recalls the free-spirited romanticism of Lhasa de...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020
Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach has had a tough life. A member of Australia’s ‘stolen generation, forcibly removed from his family...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
This modern street music from Sierra Leone is based on a form of ceremonial Islamic masquerade procession music known as...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2017
The Boxcar Boys aren’t all that they seem. They aren’t all boys, for one thing: two of the sextet are...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
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