Fifty years after his debut LP, Christ Moore's latest solo offering sees the Irish icon trawling though his live back...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2020
Once fishermen and farmers on the rich alluvial banks of the Zambezi, the Batonga were driven at gun¬point from their...
Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: March/2010
The Skatalites' brief original existence from 1963 to 1965 surely marks them out as one of the most influential bands...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
The folk music revival in Hungary, and the dance house scene that was its driving force, are now nigh-on half...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
This is a very rare private recording from 1968, featuring two percussion maestros of yesteryear, the twins Shashi (who died...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2012
Áššu (Ulla Pirttijärvi, Harald Skullerud & Olav Torget)
If joik was a person, it'd be the type who could turn up at any house party and somehow find...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: June/2019
The harpist Rachel Hair, weary of the angelic associations of her instrument, determined with her third album to reveal another...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
Ten Drum is a young Taiwanese percussion group. At first you might compare the troupe to the taiko ensembles of...
Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: October/2011
Martyn Bennett, a native of St Johns, Newfoundland, who grew up in Speyside with his mother, the singer and folklorist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012
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