Reviews
Let Me Out
War is not always amenable to great art. Feelings of horror, loss and grief give rise to a sense that...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023
All of This Is Chance
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023
Sweet Tooth
Here's a heady blend of ancestral Native American and Canadian First Nations culture and the emotive energy of contemporary free...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2023
Ahol az Ökör is Bort Iszik!
Magos are a fine Hungarian folk band playing authentic village music, mostly from Romanian Transylvania. They and their violinist Csaba...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023
The Playhouse Sessions
‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/February/2023
Braquage de Pouvoir
A quarter of a century on since he emerged from Ivory Coast with his spectacular international debut Mangercratie, Tiken Jan...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023
Casa Guilhermina
Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023
Ayahuasca: Música para Cine de Luis David Aguilar (1978-1983)
With little commercial appetite for avant-garde and classical music in Peru during the 70s and 80s, conservatory-trained composer Luis David...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2023
Murmuration
Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69)
Encouraged by an Indonesian government keen to engender ideas of national identity in the newly independent country, a raft of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/February/2023
