Reviews
Early Scottish Ragtime
Dr Vic Gammon recently retired from the International Centre for Music Studies at the Newcastle University, but is as busy...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2016
Cross the Line
Hailing from Orkney, and mentored by Douglas Montgomery (The Chair, Saltfishforty), the all-female group Fara is comprised of Jennifer Austin...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016
Life in a Paper Boat
This is Kate Rusby's 14th studio album in nearly 25 years as an artist – quite an achievement. Life in...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2016
Inglorious Technicolor
This Brighton crew perform daubed in pallid Day of the Dead skull-masks. Their music is quite a concoction, with swirling...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2016
Brass Like it Hot
Dzambo Agusevi was born in 1987 into a Roma musical family in Strumica, Macedonia, and joined his father's orchestra playing...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2016
Sunday Morning Sessions
Thrace is a quartet of musicians formed around classical cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, a long-serving member of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016
River Waiting
If last year's self-titled four-track teaser from Northern Ireland quintet Connla introduced an outfit of promise, their debut long-player confirms...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2016
Free West Papua: Rize of the Morning Star Vol 2
Like its 2013 predecessor, this compilation features artists from the Pacific and other countries, banding together in musical solidarity with...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2016
