Reviews

Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music

VARIOUS

You could be forgiven for presuming that, such is the Éthiopiques-fuelled fascination for Ethiopian music from the 1960s and 70s,...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2010

A Night in Abyssinia

Arat Kilo

A Night in Abyssinia is based on a risky premise. On the one hand, turning in a mostly instrumental set...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2011

Rumbamazigha

Rumbamazigha

Seven musicians gather to create a fusion of Catalan and Amazigh music. Barcelona record label Taller de Musics announces that...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011

Kassa

Adama Yalomba

We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010

Fryd

SVER

SVER describe themselves as ‘Norwegian folk music with relentless energy and seductive spark!’ It's the kind of phrase that usually...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015

Feedback Madagascar

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Madagascar's status as a biodiversity hotspot under threat is well known, so this compilation – the proceeds of which will...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Apr/May/2015

UDU

UDU

UDU is, as far as I know, the only collaboration between Buryat and Lithuanian musicians and it is a delight....

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Avalanche

Ímar

Ímar, a quintet who met on Glasgow's trad music scene, form an alliance of Scottish, Irish and Manx idioms. Their...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018

I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Co-produced by Joel Savoy and Joshua Clegg Caffery, and based on Caffery's scholarly tome, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2016

Eve's Bonie Squad

Tim Dalling

Discerning souls like Martin Green, Kris Drever and Chris Wood are already fans of this idiosyncratic Scottish songwriter. But unless...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2015