Reviews
Ikon: The Best of Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler
Few Jamaican vocalists hold as much emotional power as Gregory Isaacs, whose haunting sadness reflected a life of not-quite-fame, unlucky...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Warsaw's Jewish Mermaid: Syrena Recordings from the Orvomaa Archive 1909-1933
Renair Records are unearthing rare sources of Jewish music from hidden archives. Chekhov's Band, the last album, reviewed in #114,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
By the Night
With their 2016 debut Call Me Home, the folk trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel Dashwood applied the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Hijo de Tigre
Cumbia, like dub, funk or most dance music for that matter, is all about the rhythm. And on so much...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar
To produce a compilation of Ravi Shankar must surely be one of the most daunting tasks, given the wealth of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
An Introduction to Dick Gaughan
Master guitarist and singer Dick Gaughan has been touring and recording since 1970 and for six years, between 1975 and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Otros Aires Presents Balkan Airs
Balkan Airs is the latest project from Buenos Aires' nu tango outfit Otros Aires, and it just might disappoint some...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Fase Dos
This son of musical parents “wanted to be a Puerto Rican version” of Lenny Kravitz in his early teens. Instead,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Molly Tigre
This Brooklyn quintet's eponymously named debut (available digitally and on cassette) features a twin saxophone front-line, with Mitch Marcus and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
To Belfast...
A ruminative opening introduces swelling overdubbed violins; Conor Caldwell's fiddle melody-line rides atop their bank of drones much like the...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
