Reviews
Duets
Featuring many of the artists with whom he has worked over a 30-year career, bassist and singer Ben Nicholls parades...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Hajda!
This is the debut of a new band focussing on the traditional music of Polesia, a region of eastern Poland,...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Slåtter fra Gaupdalen IV (Tunes from the Lynx Valley IV)
Originally from Estonia, fiddle player Jüssi has spent much of her life travelling around the Nordic countries as well as...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Precious Collection
The London-based klezmer duo of cellist Francesca Ter-Berg and violinist Flora Curzon return with the follow-up to their 2019 debut...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Engelchen
Alison Cotton’s Engelchen is both a threnody and celebration, heartfelt, intense and deeply moving in its struggle through darkness to...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Faire Ça
Meril Wubslin’s fourth album, born from a crossroads between Brussels and Lausanne, unfolds as a captivating sonic odyssey. Recorded at...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Bomba Pop
Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Saru l-Qamar
Shivers. Another manifestation of electro-ambient-music from the Global South. I had to think of Naujawanan Baidar’s Khedmat Be Khalq, the...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Out of the Ashes
Folk, blues, swing, world music and jazz combine to weave their trade winds across UK-based French singer Julie Abbé’s fine...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
