Emily Portman’s debut album, The Glamoury (reviewed in #68), launched a distinctive voice and songwriter on the 21st century folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
To celebrate their 15th anniversary, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band wanted to release a special album that would offer a retrospective...
Reviewed by Ton Maas in issue: July/2012
He may be almost 80, but Manu Dibango shows no sign of slowing. Both his sax playing and extraordinary basso...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2012
Alde, meaning ‘swell’ in English, perfectly sums up the feel of this debut solo album from Hardanger fiddle player Benedicte...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: July/2012
Andrea Rost is one of Hungary’s best-known opera singers, with an international career performing at opera houses from La Scala...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2012
Ex-pat Argentinians in Paris are legion and involved in all kinds of musical projects, from Gotan Project’s Eduardo Makaroff to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
This idiosyncratic Italian songwriter has often been compared to Tom Waits and Paolo Conte but vocally, and also in regard...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2012
What music did people dance to in the Saigon nightclubs and army bases in the last few years of the...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2012
The harpist Rachel Hair, weary of the angelic associations of her instrument, determined with her third album to reveal another...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
Co-produced by Nick ‘Midas Touch’ Page (Dub Colossus, Syriana) and recorded live in one room over two days at the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2012
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