If Irish music was to be equated to the Premier League, then Dervish would be West Bromwich Albion – sometimes...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
There are two great regional fado traditions. The more popular comes from Lisbon and includes pretty much every artist known...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2018
In 1845, the 129-strong crew of Captain John Franklin's expedition to discover the famed North-West Passage vanished in the icy...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018
Laura-Beth Salter, one-sixth of the all– women group The Shee, first performed the songs and music that make up this,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
Glitterbeat Records have created an original album that is like an echo of a ‘Best Of’: they have given dub...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Renowned for his lightness of touch and sweetness of sound, Co Louth fiddler Gerry O'Connor has been a major presence...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: March/2019
There has sadly been very little international exposure for the music and musicians of Malawi. There is no immediately identifiable...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2015
The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2010
This is an interesting release – Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanon’s foremost diva, Fairuz, and her husband, Assi...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2021
Probably the most inventive of producer King Tubby’s dub apprentices, King Jammy took computerised reggae and gave it a defibrillating...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
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