Reviews
The Spirit of the Mountains
Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli
The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Mask Dance
The Korean quartet Black String take their name from the geomungo, the funkiest of Korea's zithers, whose name translates as...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017
Just My Soul
This is the fourth album by Erik Aliana, the first two having been in the Bikutsi and Makossa styles of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson & Northlands
Alistair Anderson, venerable master of the concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes, has been playing the music of the north-east of England...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2017
Perfect Tango
The fourth album from the Argentinian-Spanish electro-tango outfit sees them ramping up their sound – the beats are faster, the...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2017
New Era Frequency
Best known as the dynamic frontwoman for Australian roots band Blue King Brown, Nattali Rize (aka Natalie Pa’apa’a) has recently...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2017
Innamorata
The accompanying press release suggests this is ‘a perfect companion for driving around the Ibizan hills,’ and tunes such as...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: March/2017
The Inner Indian
This is a duo with a difference: Nicola Hayes is an Australian fiddler who has settled in Brittany and teamed...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2017
Red Mountain Blues
Chris Murphy should be a household name by now, having spent the past 25 years playing with some of the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2017
