Reviews
KG Westman & Zaعfaran
This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022
Rhythm Revolution
This album of raw, garage-tinged 1970s Afro-funk comes with the most extraordinary back story. Born Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi in 1939...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Good Times of Old England
Span are still a touring and recording band, like their 70s folk-rock compatriots Fairport, and a good portion of their...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022
Estrela Acesa
Estrela Acesa (Burning Star), is Sessa’s second full-length project and the first album out on Mexican Summer. The São Paulo-born...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: August/September/2022
Poems from Szék
The Transylvanian village of Szék occupies an important place in the Hungarian folk tradition. It’s situated in Romania, but the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022
Recalibrate
From the first beats of ‘I Wanna Talk to You’, the opening track of Eccodek’s fifth studio album Recalibrate, you...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: August/September/2022
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Beach Daze
The Island Girls are accordionist Karen Tweed and piano and fiddle player Margaret Robertson, MBE. The Islands are Orkney, where...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/September/2022
Northern Landscape
Hailing from County Tyrone’s Clogher Valley and formed in 2015, The Blackwater Céilí Band have been carving out a name...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: August/September/2022
Between Us…
Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022
