Reviews
Tales from the Punjab
Shez Raja is the kind of bass player who eschews the back row in favour of centre stage. In the...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2021
Now More Than Ever
With Boston fiddler McNally leading the charge, the Katie McNally Trio have been steadily making waves since their 2016 debut...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2021
Shapes of the Fall
Close to two decades ago painter, poet and musical polymath, Piers Faccini, released his solo debut on Label Bleu. Since...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite
Truly a concept rather than a story, this comes at you ‘packed with utopia and sermons for righteous earthlings… those...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2021
Iran: The Masters of Music, Vol 1
In the 19th century, the once orally transmitted modal tradition of Persian classical music was canonised into a repertoire known...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2021
Risplendenti, Riversi
Nataša Mirkovic & Michel Godard
Bosnian-born Nataša Mirković has been exploring the borderlands between early music and Balkan melodies for some years. Both categories are...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021
An Den Dey Made Tae
Growing up as part of a famous Shetland musical family, Ross Couper, fiddle player with the Peatbog Faeries, and his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2021
Alors, On Danse!
It’s a sign of the times that a ‘live’ album currently equals a livestream rather than concert performance. While the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2021
Benin Vol 4: Yehouessi Leopold Batteur
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
When Dahomey gained its independence from its French colonial masters in 1960 and became Benin, a surge of artistic creativity...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
