Reviews
Jorjuna
Drawing on this Breton band's travels throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Jorjuna is named after a ten-beat rhythm...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2017
Lawless, Winged & Unconfined
Clarinettist Merlin Shepherd, a central figure of the British klezmer crowd, presents us here with a new band, Hamsa, and...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Hard Ground
The Rachel Hamer Band met on the folk degree course at Newcastle University. They play with gusto and confidence and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2017
At Big Pink
This is a historic recording first released on the American Buddha label in 1968 and it's great that Floating World...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2017
Eponymous
This is the debut album from a Swiss-based, Bosnian-born accordionist, who was signed by Geoff Barrow (of Portishead) to his...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2017
The Boston States
The title of this album refers to the moniker given to the greater metro area of Boston in the 19th...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017
Kíla Alive
Recorded live in various venues throughout 2016, this latest offering from the irrepressible Kíla captures the outfit in their natural...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2017
Republique Amazone
Last year's WOMAD performance by this collective of West African female singers of different generations and traditions was highly praised....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Universal Favorite
On hearing this album's lyrical opener ‘Waveland’, which consists of a dainty series of arpeggiated banjo ripples, you could be...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2017
