Reviews
The Gap
It's been five long years since India Electric Co released their debut, The Girl I Left Behind Me. In that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Sins We Made
The second outing from Canadian duo Harrow Fair – Miranda Mulholland (from Great Lake Swimmers) and Andrew Penner (musician and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
River Sisters
The female trio Sutari have a distinctive place in the Polish musical landscape. Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin and Zosia Zembrzuska...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Maslak Halay1
The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Acoustic
Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Shadows on the Moon
O sister, where art thou? Not necessarily anywhere near the Appalachians, it seems. Midnight Skyracer's 2018 debut Fire proved that...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
As Catedrais Silenciadas
Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
‘Illas de Sal’, the final track of As Catedrais Silenciadas, was built around one of the countless field recordings that...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through
Smart work from the good folk who run the Alan Lomax Archives – from a catalogue of sound recordings spanning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Besh o droM20
The first track of Besh o droM's new album, ‘Atom Csocsek’, kicks off with a low-slung bassline coupled with rousing...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Gipsy Dance
The late Macedonian singer Esma Redžepova was celebrated as the ‘Queen of the Gypsies’ and, across a remarkable career, helped...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
