Reviews
Ségou to Lagos
There are many names that come to mind when one thinks of the great Malian musicians, but despite serving as...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023
Seamount
Birlinn Jiarg are a band that was put together by whistle and Anglo concertina player Beccy Hurst to perform the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2017
Tamburo Infinito
An album named Tamburo Infinito is fairly self-explanatory in its intentions. The seventh record from Italian multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Poso, it...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2021
Chasing Sparks
Fine instrumentalists such as the fiddler Jeremy Kittel will sound good even when the material they're playing isn't quite worthy...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Tempestad
This one takes me back to the 90s, when record labels threw money at bands to make arena-filling rock that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Testvériség (Brotherhood)
Slightly confusingly, the two Hungarian cimbalom players in this quartet are not brothers – I suspect one cimbalom player is...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019
Gakondo
This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Despegue
I never thought I'd end up having to reconsider La Chiva Gantiva's debut album as ‘polite’. This is a band...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sheear
Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015
O Fado em Nós
For quite some time, it looked like Pedro Moutinho would never live up to the rather unfair job of stepping...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
