Reviews
Outliers
Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine
The title of this collaboration between singer-songwriters Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine encapsulates the lockdown experience in which it was...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2024
Pepito y Paquito
Many albums are ballyhooed for their ‘historic’ significance. Most are truly significant only as gap-fillers on the shelves of completist...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024
Perfeita Desordem
When one hears of a duo comprised of Portuguese guitar and classical guitar, fado understandably pops into mind. But although...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024
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Hulbækmo & Jacobsen Familieorkester
My first encounter with Hans Hulbækmo was when he was a final year student at the Trondheim Conservatoire, the outstanding...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2024
Quintela
Carme López plays the Galician gaita (bagpipes), but for this debut album she’s dedicated to what sounds like the deep...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2024
Cold Sea
Cold Sea is the first solo release from Oisin Leech, who may be more familiar as one half of Irish...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
Onde
Renowned Salento songbird Mazzotta embarks on a daring musical journey with collaborators Ernesto Nobili (guitars) and Cristiano Della Monica (drums,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2024
Riegádahttin
‘Life is here, can you feel it?’ Mirja Palo’s lyrics don’t shy away from the pain of labour and childbirth...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2024
Slack Your Horse
Goblin Band are a six-piece who coalesced around London’s Hobgoblin music shop. Their liner notes for this 30-minute set of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2024
Flamenco Mediterráneo
Carlos Coronado likes to establish a musical connection with landscape. Having been born in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2024
