Reviews
The Electric Muse Revisited
When the book The Electric Muse was originally published in 1975 a separate four-LP box set was issued to accompany...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
I Would Not Live Always
I Would Not Live Always opens with a brief burst of burbling electronics before the traditional ballad ‘Lovely Joan’ weighs...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Càirdeas
Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich
With guitarist Brian Ó hEadhra hailing from Newfoundland (via Dublin) and NicChoinnich from Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, the duo’s third...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Tall Tales
When there are seven instrumentalists on stage, and a simmering energy bubbling beneath their fingers, it must be difficult for...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Jar’a
A sound explorer and artistic orchestrator, Paolo Angeli is known for playing a prepared Sardinian guitar, a crossbreed instrument provided...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Muzyka spod Radomia
This album is like spending an evening at a superb village folk night in Poland, which wouldn’t have existed 20...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
Reassembled
Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Pecata Beata
Pecata Beata is the third album by Catalan singer, composer and clarinettist Carola Ortiz (who contributed clarinet on Anandi Bhattacharya’s...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Pajavasara
We all have days when we believe we can split rocks and are immortal (don’t we?). If so, look no...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
