Reviews
Permanent War
Sir Jean & NMB Afrobeat Experience
This French outfit comprise singer Sir Jean accompanied by the style-shifting brass band known as the NMB Afrobeat Experience. They...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2016
Manara
Sudanese-American singer Alsarah and her Nubatones first showed up on the radar with their fantastic debut Silt in 2014. As...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2016
Smokey Joe
FolkLaw are a folk-rock four piece from the Gloucester area of England – an easy-going part of the world. Their...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2016
On Time
Funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the fourth album by Daryl Shawn, a maestro of the nylon-string guitar who comes from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
Wolves a’ Howlin’
Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick
This pair of talented instrumentalists don’t look old enough to be playing music this long in the tooth. Fiddler Kieran...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2016
Every Little Spirit
Another reviewer has written that this disc is ‘perfect Sunday morning music’: this is a very astute observation, but the...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2016
Chiaroscuro
Baird Hersey & Prana with Nexus
A collaboration on many levels, this album brings the innovative instrument-building skills of Garry Kvistad, the multiphonic singing abilities of...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2016
Wild Blue Yonder
The knowingly kitsch cover says it all really: a trio of country musicians aboard a covered wagon, flying like Santa's...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016
Tambacounda Express
The Lovin’ Spoonful's John Sebastian once sang that ‘there's 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville’; there are surely at least as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
