Reviews
The Watchmaker's Wife
This is a highly anticipated third album from the double-bassist and fine vocalist Miranda Sykes and mandolin maestro Rex Preston....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Releasing the Leaves
Enthusiasts of English folk music will perhaps already be familiar with Dorset-based duo Ninebarrow. Their 2014 debut, While the Blackthorn...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: April/2016
Palimpsest
For their third album, Three Cane Whale eschew their previous in-the-field approach to recording – an 18th-century Bristol church for...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2016
Like a Bird or Spirit, Not a Face
You take the world's foremost female throat-singer and the rhythm section from Tinariwen, put them in the studio with Grammy-winning...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2016
Soul Sok Séga: Séga Sounds from Mauritius 1973-1979
The international exposure of music from the Indian Ocean has, understandably, been dominated by the sounds of the huge island...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2016
Swirling Sands
Dylan Fowler, Ian Melrose, Soïg Sibéril
Similar coastal landscapes adorn the sleeves of veteran Scottish guitarist Ian Melrose's two new records, both on the German guitar...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
Cicada Ball
The Boxcar Boys aren’t all that they seem. They aren’t all boys, for one thing: two of the sextet are...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
Happy Machine
The high-energy high jinks of this group from Bosnia and Herzegovina work a sort of reverse Balkanisation. Which is to...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: April/2016
Anthology of Traditional Folk Music in Moravia 6: Love & Wedding Songs
These are the final releases in the excellent Czech label Indies Scope's survey of Moravian music. While the first four...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2016
