Reviews

Some Heavy Hand

Cath & Phil Tyler

Spanning the Anglo-American folk duo’s career from 2005 to 2018, Some Heavy Hand is a marvellous collection of unreleased session...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021

42 Days

Southeast of Rain

Formed of sound artists Sophia Shen and Lemon Guo, Southeast of Rain was conceived in the autumn of 2019, when...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2021

Reassembled

Bellowhead

Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021

Pecata Beata

Carola Ortiz

Pecata Beata is the third album by Catalan singer, composer and clarinettist Carola Ortiz (who contributed clarinet on Anandi Bhattacharya’s...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2021

Hikikomori

La Chicana

Acho Estol and Dolores Solá have spent 25 years revivifying tango and other Argentinian and international musical genres with wit,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2021

SMS for Location, Vol 4

Moonshine

Montréal has been at the forefront of club culture in Canada for some time now: from multi-arts practice in Ausgang...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2021

Gandhi

Rão Kyao

Rão Kyao was actually born João Gorjão Jorge and was a key figure in the local Portuguese jazz scene in...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2021

Pajavasara

Perttula

We all have days when we believe we can split rocks and are immortal (don’t we?). If so, look no...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021

Wolf Rune

Sinikka Langeland

Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky. Her...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021

Santuario/Sanctuary

VARIOUS ARTISTS

If you wanted a snapshot of contemporary Latin American music in the UK at this moment, then you couldn’t ask...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2021