Anohni and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross review – intense emotion and captivating soul | Anohni

Anohni: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross cover artwork.

You would be hard-pushed to call Anohni’s sixth studio album – her first since Hopelessness seven years ago – anything other than an unexpected departure. Whatever path you imagined her admirably peripatetic career might take […]

Damir Imamović: The World and All That It Holds review – lightning bolts of emotion | Music

Damir Imamović: The World and All That It Holds album artwork

After an adolescence sheltering from the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war, Damir Imamović dedicated his musical life to researching, performing and making accessible the sevdalinka (AKA sevdah) of his childhood. These emotional southern […]

‘I was overwhelmed with emotion’: readers on their memories of seeing Joni Mitchell live | Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell at the RDS in Dublin in early 1983.

‘I cheered and someone glared at me for the noise’ It was my first concert, at the RDS Main Hall in Dublin in early 1983. I’d recently bought her then-new LP Wild Things Run Fast. […]