Reviews
Via de la Plata
Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2026
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Melanie Eden is an Australian performance poet and musician who does not do things by halves. Notable for her unvarnished...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2026
Live at Cooper Hall
The Derry singer is a reliably captivating live draw considering that voice, those songs, the subtle acoustic accompaniment of husband...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2026
Kin
Four years after the startling experiment in looping and overdubbing of his solo debut, The Tin Fiddle, Donegal fiddler Damien...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2026
Chapel
If you’re thinking Andy Aquarius can’t be his real name, you’d be right. Andy Ozbolt is a singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: June/2026
We Famous
Having had his career derailed by civil war and Ebola, the blind Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi was reduced to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2026
Shapes in Twilights of Infinity
ESINAM is a Belgian-Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist who creates cosmic soundscapes by fusing intricate rhythms, silvery flute, ethereal vocals, African percussion, spoken...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2026
Mean Old World
A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Gordie Tentrees was raised on a farm in an environment described in his bio...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2026
KWEChE
The nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre of the Luo people in Kenya. Played in a fast and rhythmic way,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2026
