Reviews
Life is Good on the Open Road
After a four-year hiatus, Trampled by Turtles return with a highly anticipated new album, a release that captures and refines...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake-Tune in issue: July/2018
Avant l’Orage
Mesmeric repetition dominates and elevates; this is a real trip of tracks saturated with ancient throwback sounds and tunes which...
Reviewed by Wendy Scott in issue: July/2018
One Sky
After escaping the Iraq-Iran war in the 1990s, the oud (lute) player Rahim AlHaj moved to the US; Letters From...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2018
Bykerumba
Now in their 22nd year, Newcastle-upon-Tyne's The Baghdaddies are the elder statesmen of the UK's Balkan fusion scene. In contrast...
Reviewed by Tom Wagner in issue: July/2018
Nuun
Albaitil Ashwai's members, who include Qais Raja (vocals and guitar), Feras Arrabi (lead guitar) and Qased Ihsan (accordion), have collaborated...
Reviewed by Marwan Shamiyeh in issue: July/2018
‘Live’ in Foix
Tcha Limberger Trio with Mozes Rosenberg
Tcha Limberger is a super-skilled and versatile violinist, who plays in a number of different genres. Sometimes it's Transylvanian folk,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018
White Light: The Space Between
O/Modernt, which translates as ‘unmodern’, is the conceptual brainchild of British-born violinist Hugo Ticciati. On White Light: The Space Between,...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2018
Balance l’Aurore
Garance Louis & the Mitochondries
The genres dipped into are familiar, but it's the idiosyncrasies that this French singer, composer and accordionist brings to her...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2018
Afrique Mon Désir
Laurinda Hofmeyr, Afrique mon Désir Ensemble & Régis Gizavo & #9;
For more than two decades, Laurinda Hofmeyr has specialised in setting the poetry of her native South Africa to music....
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
The Crowing
A striking album of fresh explorations into the more obscure corners and bridleways of English music and folklore, The Crowing...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2018
