Reviews
Laço Umbilical
On a trip to Cape Verde last year I found myself being chastised by another journalist for mentioning the search...
Reviewed by Clive Davis in issue: May/2018
Åra
Apneseth is on the move again. His previous albums have investigated a more purist Norwegian folk (even when he's penned...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2018
Avenging & Bright
O’Kane's Areas of High Traffic album, a revelatory reworking of traditional Irish songs with a very contemporary punch, was just...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2018
Self Preservation Society
Three years in the making, these three vinyl discs contain new versions of classic prog, folk and psychedelic rock tunes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018
The Wishing Tree
Players at the top of their game and in high demand in the Celtic music world, John Doyle, John McCusker...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018
Odoïa
This is the second album from the Ensemble Mze Shina, which means ‘Inner Sun’ in Georgian. e four singers, Denise...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018
Iphupho: A Cappella from South Africa
Afrika Mamas’ fourth album, Iphupho (New Dreams), beautifully encapsulates the magic of sisterhood and the central role that community plays...
Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: April/2018
Chants Mystiques d’Algérie
Four years on from Renyate, her tribute to great, if sometimes marginal, Algerian female singers such as Meriem Fekkai, Fadela...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: April/2018
Too Hot to Sleep
The debut album by accordionist and pianist Sam Reider, supported by his band, the Human Hands, manifests all his joyfully...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2018
