Reviews
Tastes Like LA
So diverse is Latin American music that most artists, when they come to fusions, choose a couple of elements and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017
Room With a View
After six years, Old Blind Dogs are back. Founded by fiddler Jonny Hardie in 1990 while busking in the Highlands,...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Miky y Repa
La Reyna y La Real first met in 2012 on the underground rap circuit in Havana, having initially trod quite...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2017
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
