Reviews
Naaljos Ljom
I like my Norwegian folk music with an earthy, gritty, dirt under the fingernails sort of sound. I wasn't expecting...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2021
Adeline
John Showman, Chris Coole, Adrian Gross, Sam Allison, Mark Kilianski
Last March, a quintet of old-timey/bluegrass/Americana string specialists gathered at a cottage on the shores of Beaver Lake in the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Bad for Business
Welcome to the Nashville living room of Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, where they and a few friends have worked on...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2021
Trotula
Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2021
Path of Seven Colors
Listening to this groundbreaking album on the day the news reveals that Haiti’s president has been assassinated by a group...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2021
The Great Blue Wheel
Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2021
Atlântico
Django lives! Or his legacy does anyway. Raised in a Belgian manouche community, where he learned the guitar as a...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2021
Astor Piazzolla: Aconcagua/Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
There are too many random, unfocused, greatest hits cover albums of Piazzolla’s work, so it’s good to see a record...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021
