Reviews
Úrnua
Carl Hession, Eimear Coughlan, Francis Cunningham
The scion of a well-known Count Galway family of traditional musicians, pianist Carl Hession has established himself as a consummate...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
At Home
This album certainly has an arresting start. Sakar Khan saws his bow across the strings of his kamancha and repeats...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2014
RE
The Finnish trio return to continue their search for ‘new ways to perform early music.’ Aino Peltomaa (voice, harp, percussion),...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2023
Imbarca
Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
Barcelona is famous as a music city largely for the rumba flamenco (or rumba catalana) sound of Peret and the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
Azaadi: Freedom
Samia Malik's album is autobiographical, bringing out the personal from the political via a series of original English and Urdu...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2017
Ups and Downs
Zoox are Linda Game, Jo May and Becky Menday, who play a range of esoteric instruments including djembé, congas, balafon,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
No Food Without Taste If By Hunger
Following Edo Funk Explosion Vol 1, which featured three Benin City groups, we are now treated to an album by...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2023
Zoy Zoy
It would be unfair to say that our taste for the Touareg blues style known as assouf, pioneered by Tinariwen...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015
The Turn of the Tide
This is the second solo album from the Sussex-based folk singer with fingers in many pies. He is the co-founder...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2017
Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies
Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies
World music fusions have often resulted in some pointless sonic stews, and Gabriel Saglio, a Toulouse-based artist, has come up...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
