Reviews

The Art of Mandolin

Simon Mayor

First things first: Simon Mayor is an extraordinarily talented mandolin player. He is clearly a little obsessed: the CD booklet...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Port

Forabandit

It's the energy and urgency of Forabandit that impresses the most. There's an unstoppable drive about these songs, performed by...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Queen Between

Susheela Raman

When confronted with an impressive new album, there's always a temptation to hail it as the artist's ‘best work to...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Viento y Marea

Jerez Texas

Jazz and flamenco are niche genres that have had towering peaks yet are currently in troughs in terms of both...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Musica Fina

Fernando’s Kitchen

A six-piece UK- based fusion band, Fernando’s Kitchen grew out of a meeting on London’s South Bank between two buskers:...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Paradise

Dub Inc

Dub Inc are a multicultural force in French music, famous at home for giving Saint- Étienne’s Algerian minority a place...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Regions

Ellis Island Sound

The brains behind Ellis Island Sound (Pete Astor and David Sheppard) are those of musical veterans; they have been collaborating...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

9 Dead Alive

Rodrigo y Gabriela

After lavishly augmenting their acoustic guitars with a swinging Cuban orchestra on 2012’s Area 52, the ever-popular Mexican duo return...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand

Sølvguttene & Kudsi Erguner

Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...

Reviewed in issue June/2014

Lion City

Dirtmusic

Dirtmusic is an ongoing collaboration between Australian Hugo Race, an early member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, and American Chris...

Reviewed in issue June/2014