Reviews
Rooted
After 2017's Trails & Tribulations, Rooted again boasts contributions from Nancy Kerr, John Smith and Andy Cutting and also includes...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2019
Pinnacle Ridge
Each musician in this trio is supremely talented and plays with the sensitivity and virtuosity one would expect from highly...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2019
Mambo Noir Trio
More noir than mambo, this curiosity instantly casts the listener upon gentle but foreboding waves of Scandi piano jazz. Since...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2019
The Outlander
On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019
Way of the Drum
Mugenkyo Taiko (Limitless Reverberation) are one of the longest running taiko groups in the UK, whose interdisciplinary approach has led...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2019
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Emerging from The Gloaming's five-strong fold, Hardanger d'amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and pianist Thomas Bartlett have struck of to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019
Seventh Heaven
Taichmania are an Israeli fusion group headed by multi-instrumentalist and composer Yaniv Taichman. Seventh Heaven, their debut, gives the occasional...
Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: December/2019
Mosese
The man behind BBE's latest Tabansi Records re-release, recorded in Nigeria in 1979, hails from the Congo basin: Lumingu Puati...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: December/2019
Do You Love
Otava Yo are a slightly eccentric Russian folk band from St Petersburg who like to play with the traditions and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019
