Reviews
Homage to Nazım Hikmet
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
Roraima
Sigurd Hole’s previous album was a solo double bass exploration into the environment and atmospheres of his native Norway. Now...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2022
The Sargasso Season
From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
ECHO
It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
Hugnad
Olav Luksengård Mjelva is the Norwegian member of the Norwegian/Swedish/Shetland trio the Nordic Fiddlers Bloc. An award-winning composer and sought-after...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2022
Ink of the Rosy Morning
Like a number of albums released this year, the root story behind the Cambridge duo’s debut for Topic Records is...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
Feather Spines
An unusual New Zealand collaboration between two Wellington-based female musicians who have been working on this project since 2019, Tāmira...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2022
Alchemy
The fun and engaging new album from the indie-folk band finds them celebrating their tenth anniversary by returning to their...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2022
Till Skogen
Climate change, pandemics, wars… there’s an urgent need to raise people’s spirits, so the joy and optimism of Kolonien’s Till...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2022
Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-83
Mexican sonidero (DJ) Gabriel Dueñez had been playing a set for five or six hours when his turntable began overheating...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2022
