Reviews
In the Echo: Field Recordings from Earlsfort Terrace
Proof that Irish traditional music is the most amenable of genres, In the Echo brings together leading figures in the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2021
Madremonte
Madremonte is the debut album from the Europe-based Colombian duo, Jaguar. The title of the album makes reference to an...
Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: December/2021
16 Rayos
The word ‘mambo’ conjures up shimmying couples almost losing themselves to crazed percussion. But the dance craze was, in fact,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021
Kaftan d’Alma
Maybe we can blame a common Mediterranean feeling working its way into a shared culture, but it is quite interesting...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2021
Melodi
Kit Sebastian is the London-based duo of Turkish vocalist Merve Erdem and Anglo-French multi-instrumentalist Kit Martin, but you’d be forgiven...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2021
The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
Explaining The Ballad of Dood & Juanita to an interviewer, Sturgill Simpson offered, ‘I’ve only ever really been interested in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2021
The Road Never Travelled
Tzimmes translates in Yiddish a ‘big fuss.’ It’s also an Eastern European Jewish dish: a sweet, honeyed mix of root...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: December/2021
Timber
Add Bryan Rahija to the ranks of superb fingerstyle guitar pickers from the Piedmont region – Durham, North Carolina, to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2021
Night + Day
With their debut album winning a Grammy for Best New Age Album back in 2019, the sophomore release from this...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: December/2021
