Reviews
Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
It's incredible how the tango has conquered the world – from its origins in Buenos Aires to Paris, Helsinki, Istanbul...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2023
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/September/2022
Soma
The Belfast uilleann piper John McSherry sprang to fame with the band Tamalin in the 1990s, before moving on to...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010
A Problem of Our Kind
Three-time nominees at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) are an impressive...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2018
Ar Baradoz: Sacred Songs of Lower Brittany
Yann-Fañch Kemener, Florence Rousseau & Aldo Ripoche
The Breton music most familiar to us tends to be forthright: bagpipe bands, the talabard (bombard) or choirs singing lustily....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
The Rip Tide
Unlike previous Beirut albums, there's precious little evidence of Zach Condon's cosmopolitan taste in music here. Gone are the mariachi...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Solid Gold U Roy
The death of U Roy in February at the age of 78 had an ‘end of an era’ feeling, since...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Mutende Mizimu: Vimbuza from Mzimba North
Doctor Kanuska leads her ensemble in the traditional vimbuza healing trance dance ritual. As a child she was diagnosed by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2021
Apocalypse Across the Sky
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
The story of Jajouka in the West begins with William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, who were their conduit to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
