Category: Album Reviews – Archive

August 20, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

Haveli (Yum Yum Tree)  What hits you first is the sound quality: play this loud and your neighbours will think a band is rehearsing in your living-room. This enchanting album was recorded in the Piramal Haveli, an exotic (and resonant!) century-old building in remote Bagar, India. There saxophonist Matt Keegan…

August 13, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

9 Dead Alive (Rubyworks)  Rodrigo and Gabriela are back to just using two acoustic guitars. They have sought to extend their palette by compositional ideas, instead, the nine pieces being homages to assorted pioneers, geniuses and philanthropists. The Soundmaker is for Antonio de Torres Jurado, the nineteenth-century Spaniard who reinvented…

August 6, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

The Phoenix And The Turtle (Les Cousins/Planet) Beverly Martyn’s first album in 14 years is often so achingly raw it is like being given a tool for excavating her soul. The recording quality makes it seem that she is seated right beside you, wishing, lamenting and confessing in your ear.…