Reviews
The Canny Band
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's Ode to the Banjo
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
Dog With A Rope
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
The Great Blue Wheel
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
Dark Matter
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
Rosa
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
Andalusian Love Song
David Broza & The Andalusian Orchestra Ashkelon
The most striking thing about this release is that it celebrates the often-overlooked Sephardic Jewish tradition of music that has...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016
Supermoon
The Israeli-born Itai Kriss has spent two decades lighting up New York’s vibrant jazz scene with his flute playing, working...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2022
