Reviews
50 Years
When the definitive history of Irish folk music comes to be written, The Dubliners will loom large and long in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2013
Nigeria 70: Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife and Juju From 1970s Lagos
The third edition of Strut's Nigeria 70 series contains another 13 crate-raiding tracks never previously issued outside of Nigeria –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2011
We Famous
Having had his career derailed by civil war and Ebola, the blind Sierra Leonean musician Sorie Kondi was reduced to...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
Rumba con Flores
Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project
This young, classically trained pianist, composer and arranger shares her time between London, Barcelona and Havana, and her creative energies...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2016
Stargazer
Inspired by the expressionist paintings of Jack Butler Yeats (brother of the poet WB Yeats), Stargazer positions Ensemble Ériu as...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017
The Art of the Mongolian Yatga
The yatga is a Mongolian zither (similar to a Chinese guzheng or Japanese koto), which Baasankhuu performs confidently upon, whether...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2015
L'Ésprit Créole
With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Past the Gates
Russian bands have only featured intermittently on the world music scene – one thinks of Sergei Starostin, the Terem Quartet...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
For the Night
Cool, hip, vibrant might alone be three words that sum up Elephant Sessions’ forth release, For the Night. Building on...
Reviewed by James Scott Rorison in issue: December/2022
