Reviews
If You See a Rook on Its Own, It’s a Crow
Lincolnshire-born singer and fiddle player Elle Osborne first hit the folk scene with her 2000 debut Testimony. This was followed...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2020
3NE
Niqolah Seeva seeks to push established boundaries and challenge our preconceptions; his first album presents itself as the clarion call...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: November/2020
The Wilderness Yet
Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
Viento y Tiempo: Live at Blue Note Tokyo
Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Aymée Nuviola
In August 2019 the award-winning Cuban artists Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Aymée Nuviola teamed up to play six sold-out nights at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020
Sunshine Day: The Boyhood Sessions
Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the 2014 movie Boyhood, a remarkable and sprawling investigation of the human condition refracted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
Song to a Refugee
After five fine albums of Appalachian-tinged folk songs, Diana Jones felt too devastated by the horror of Trump’s election to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2020
The Promise
Turkish oud player Mehmet Polat further develops his style on this solo album with the help of others on traditional...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020
Windrush
As a Pennsylvaniaborn singer-songwriter and mandolinist married to a Frenchwoman and living in Cambridgeshire during the Brexit tussles, it’s perhaps...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
