Reviews
Aimez Ces Airs
DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson
Now this album could well be lighting up summer 2019; its mix of Afrobeat rhythms and reggae vocals – with...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019
Bellows and Pipes
Markku Lepistö & Mikko Helenius
The sound and grandeur of a vast cathedral, and the intimacy of chamber music: the combination of church organ and...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2019
Smallworld
Dallahan reach their half-decade with album number three, Smallworld. It's a cleverly knowing title for a quintet of roving Irish,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2019
The Upstage Album
Oska Tee is a South African producer, composer and singer with a fine tenor voice, a thing for the club...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019
The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe
In their heyday, the Rough Guide CDs were superb overviews of the music of a particular country or region. Now,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2019
Rafi's Revenge
Songlines is 20 years old, but this album is 21, and it's now receiving a welcome reissue, bolstered by Under...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2019
Bendewarî/İntizar/Longing
Sakina Teyna is a traditional singer who was born into a Kurdish family in Varto, a small town in the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2019
Laylet el Booree
For their second album, Ifriqiyya Electrique have refined their approach; an improved production lends greater power to a concept that...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2019
This is How the Ladies Dance
Battle of the Folk Bands winners at the 2018 Edinburgh Tradfest, Glasgow-based five-piece Eabhal originally came together on the isle...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2019
