Reviews
Long Journey Home – A Century After The 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
John McCutcheon is known for his concept albums paying homage to folks like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. His new...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2025
Ura Uku
Based in the Ecuadorian Andes, ‘neotraditional’ Jatun Mama, AKA producer Jesús Atzil Bonilla, reshapes the music of his native land...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: December/2025
Life & Time
Two Grammy-winning songwriters – one a former NFL footballer, Mike Reid, whose heavily grained voice carries these songs, and the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025
Dakan
As opening statements go, you can’t get much more gloriously emphatic than ‘Diyanye Ko’ which kicks off the fourth album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Lost Measures
Leveret (Sam Sweeney on fiddle and viola, Andy Cutting on button accordion/melodeon and Rob Harbron on English concertina) return with...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2025
Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
Silvana Estrada says she studied at a jazz conservatory so she could “use my voice as an instrument”, and with...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
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Yalla Miku, the brainchild of Beirut-born Bongo Joe founder Cyril Yeterian, is a group which brings musicians from North and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
L’amour à la folie
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Underwater Cairngorms
Mhairi Hall & David de la Haye
A collaboration between composer Mhairi Hall and field recordist David de la Haye, Underwater Cairngorms combines sounds captured from below...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2025
