Reviews

New Jazz Musette

Richard Galliano

Plenty of artists venerate and emulate Astor Piazzolla. His distinctive signature sound, prolific output and long career left a huge...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Phoresy

Symbio

I have a feeling that Johannes Geworkian and LarsEmil Öjeberget were destined to make music together, regardless of what instruments...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Do Primeiro Fado Ao Último Tango

Mísia

‘From the First Fado to the Last Tango’ is a Best Of set celebrating Mísia’s 25 years as a recording...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

A Delicate Game

Top Floor Taivers

Comprising singer Claire Hastings, pianist Tina Jordan Rees, fiddler Gráinne Brady and Heather Downie on clarsach (harp), Top Floor Taivers’...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Aur

Carreg Lafar

Amazingly, this is only the fourth studio album from the long-established Cardiff-based traditional music group, Carreg Lafar. These champions of...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Fairich

Whyte

Whyte hail from Aberdeen and Mull and comprise the electronic composer and the Gaelic singer-songwriter Ross and Alasdair Whyte. They...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Dat Ik Zingen Moet!

Surpluz

Since forming in 2007, this young Flemish ensemble, intent on leading listeners musically through the Dutch-speaking region ‘from Amsterdam, via...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Arbrasson

Beñat Achiary, Patricia Chatelain & José le Piez

This eerily magical collaboration between experimental vocalist Achiary, sound sculptor le Piez and nomadic artist Chatelain is best listened to...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Branches

Andrew Finn Magill

Branches finds North Carolina fiddler and violinist Andrew Finn Magill confirming the promise of last year’s debut, Roots. The earlier...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Awake in a Dream

Meszecsinka

Meszecsinka feature Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian and Polish musicians coming together to create a fusion that has been labelled ‘psychedelic, new...

Reviewed in issue May/2017