Reviews
Confluence #2: Le Chant des Sources
Usually made of hard wood, the kaval is an end-blown pastoral flute found in Turkey, Armenia, Greece, Albania, North Macedonia,...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: April/2022
Zone 6, Agege
Soaring highlife horns and harmonies jostle with hip-hop vocals and reggae rhythms to create a thoroughly engaging and very modern...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: April/2022
Osmosi
Osmosi is a collage by three virtuoso Italian jazz-rock instrumentalists (Fabio Marconi, Alberto Pederneschi and Ivo Barbieri), blending styles from...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: April/2022
Aistear
Evidence that Aisling Lyons is the finest young Irish harpist at work today comes in the eight-time All-Ireland champion’s debut...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2022
Picker’s Dream
Liverpool based fingerstyle guitarist James Rigby’s playing is undoubtedly precise and technically spot on, as he demonstrates throughout 16 sunny,...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: April/2022
Janus
Hardanger fiddle player Annbjørg Lien has long been putting her instrument on the international map. She first recorded aged 12...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2022
Hello Cabo Verde
‘Fazê Gat’, the opening track on this rather lovely album, finds Adê singing gently in a duet with fellow Cape...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
When Summer Comes Again
This is Simon Mayor and Hilary James’s lockdown album; with no concerts to play they turned to favourite songs and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2022
