This is a remarkable album by a singersongwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and writer who grows more impressive as the years go...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2021
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne plays melodeons and concertinas, including a rare Lachenal 30-key bass Anglo concertina on which he performs ‘parping accompaniment...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2021
Over the last half a century or so there have been many attempts to reveal ‘Europe’s unknown music,’ which usually...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021
From the opening title-track, a brilliantly rendered bluegrass cover of Eric Clapton’s song from his 1998 LP Pilgrim, to the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2021
Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: May/2021
What should you give someone who listens to a broad swath of ‘global music’? How about a 100-track compilation of...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2021
This exciting project from multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Antonio Neves asks a simple question: what’s the sound of Rio today? Rather...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2021
Hossein Alizadeh & Rembrandt Frerichs Trio
‘Same, same, but different,’ as they like to say in Thailand. The Rembrandt Frerichs Trio released a magnificent album with...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
Piranha Records have delved into their archives, looked in the ‘1987’ box and recovered the record that started it all...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2021
There is no doubting the devotion with which sarod player Chinmaya Dunster, the progenitor of MELA, approaches his musical projects....
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021
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