Reviews
By the Night
With their 2016 debut Call Me Home, the folk trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel Dashwood applied the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Hijo de Tigre
Cumbia, like dub, funk or most dance music for that matter, is all about the rhythm. And on so much...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar
To produce a compilation of Ravi Shankar must surely be one of the most daunting tasks, given the wealth of...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
An Introduction to Dick Gaughan
Master guitarist and singer Dick Gaughan has been touring and recording since 1970 and for six years, between 1975 and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Otros Aires Presents Balkan Airs
Balkan Airs is the latest project from Buenos Aires' nu tango outfit Otros Aires, and it just might disappoint some...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Fase Dos
This son of musical parents “wanted to be a Puerto Rican version” of Lenny Kravitz in his early teens. Instead,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Molly Tigre
This Brooklyn quintet's eponymously named debut (available digitally and on cassette) features a twin saxophone front-line, with Mitch Marcus and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
To Belfast...
A ruminative opening introduces swelling overdubbed violins; Conor Caldwell's fiddle melody-line rides atop their bank of drones much like the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Djoyas de Mar
This album is not only musically interesting but is an inventive reimagining and bringing together of two traditions. At first...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2018
Wande
Malian guitarist and vocalist Samba Touré was a protégé of Ali Farka Touré, having been a member of his touring...
Reviewed in issue July/2018
