Reviews
Conversations We’ve Had Before
With stalwart melodeon player Saul Rose and sympatico guitarist David Delarre, Eliza Carthy has hit on the perfect combination. They...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Mãe
Cristina Branco has always been a bit reluctant to call herself a fadista. And it is not hard to understand...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
La Novia
An album of Sephardic and traditional songs from Puglia’s La Cantiga de la Serena, a trio made up of Fabrizio...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Amame
It’s nearly 35 years since Sámi singer Boine recorded Gula Gula, the album which brought the world’s attention to her...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Komorebi Live
Dyad (Didier Laloy & Adrien Tyberghein)
The partnership of double bass with diatonic accordion might seem as unlikely as a romance between a Great Dane and...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Lullabies from Scotland
There are some lovely, sparkly moments in this self-descriptive album from 2015's BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Tarkabarka
Balamuc are a London-based band with a global membership and a clear interest in the music of the Roma, especially...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Days Like Now
This is a super cool album from the Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett. Having been widely praised for...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Toda un Alegría
It's very difficult to pigeonhole the music of Barcelona's Adriano Galante, although ‘understated Hispanophone quietism with a very distant nod...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Shorelines
Shorelines, the fifth solo album from the Irish multi-instrumentalist is an exciting, inspiring and thoroughly enchanting listen. A collection of...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
