Reviews

Inkerin Laulu

Maco Oey

Oey was born in Germany to an Indonesian-Chinese father and a Finnish mother from Ingria, now part of Russia. His...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Una Ronda Més

Fenya Rai

Una Ronda Més (One More Round) is the third album from Fenya Rai who hail from Valls, south-west of Barcelona....

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Cool Head

Georgia Ruth

Wales’ Georgia Ruth wooed all with her voice and harp playing on 2013’s In the Pines, which saw her nominated...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Loud and Clear

Otava Yo

Active for 20 years, Otava Yo are probably the most successful Russian band on the world music scene with their...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Jouhikko

Lassi Logrén

Finnish music fans around the world know Logrén as the fiddle player in the legendary band Värttinä. What they might...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Pétala

Inês Vaz

Pétala is the second album from Portuguese accordionist Inês Vaz. The title is inspired by the final lines of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Flowers

Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh

This debut album from the trio of vocalists, multi-instrumentalists and composers Odette Michell, Karen Pfeiffer and Daria Kulesh presents an...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Sometime Between Now and Never

Dumai Dunai

Punchy Balkan brass, bubbling dub rhythms and piquant punk guitar riffs jostle joyously on this first offering from Montréal-based Dumai...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

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Sampo Lassila Narinkka

Hop on the last metro out of Helsinki city centre. Nighttime revelries fade away as the doors slide closed and...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Weġgħat Żgħar

TroffaĦamra

What a surprise to hear an album sung predominantly in Maltese. Infused inevitably with Mediterranean influences, bolstered by perceptible Levantine,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024