Reviews
Glendrian
Composer and multi-instrumentalist MacKenzie’s new release, Glendrian, is a fetching tribute to an area of north-west Scotland which has strong...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2022
Read the Sky
Oysterband have had an impressive history, and they are certainly not finished yet. This is the 12th studio album, the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2022
Over Fields and Mountains
Over Fields and Mountains is one of those ‘lost’ or ‘outsider’ records that contains the sound of surprise. The late...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
Pan Atlantico
Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2022
Tierra Quemada
Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022
From Transylvania
Where is the meeting point between Romanian folklore and Jamaican-influenced dub? Lil Obeah, from Transylvania, is there, with hints of...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2022
Suspiro
Canzone napoletana, the world’s best-known Italian popular music, has enthralled Suonno d’Ajere (Yesterday’s Dream) – a young Neapolitan trio employing...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2022
Akustik
Sinan Cem Eroglu & Muhlis Berberoglu | Sinan Cem Eroğlu
This is the fourth solo album from the Hamburg-based Turkish multi-instrumentalist and member of the band Niyaz. It brings together...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022
Unknown Waters
Though they may have ventured into the southern flatlands of England, the folk duo Megson has always remained close to...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022
Fiat Lux
Tarta Relena – Barcelona-based singers Helena Ros and Marta Torrella – was born in 2016 out of a project to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022
