Reviews
The Rough Guide to the Best World Music You’ve Never Heard
Much has been written about ‘world music’ as a genre – going back to David Byrne's 1999 New York Times...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2016
Pompadour
In the four years since his last solo recording, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien has been recording and touring with...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2016
Flight Paths
Siskin Quartet are a melding together of two remarkable duos. English-born fiddler Bridget Marsden and accordionist Leif Ottosson – outstanding...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2023
Dialogues IV
The story of this record is so compelling that it comes as a relief that the content is equal to...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020
Corazón y Hueso
When Argentinian rocker Daniel Melingo took a stab at tango in 1998 with songs like ‘Narigón’ and ‘José el Cuchiyero’...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
The Best of Kathryn Tickell
Kathryn Tickell started playing the Northumbrian smallpipes when she was nine. These are bellows blown with, unlike other bagpipes, a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010
Esteesee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
The Alchemy
Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018
