Reviews
Throisma
This is the second solo album from Monsieur Doumani’s Antonis Antoniou, and like the previous Kkismettin it’s a corker. It...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2022
Flourish
Katie McNally is a terrific young fiddle player from Boston, who, devoted to the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions, is...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
To the Horizon, Sir
Iain Morrison hails from a village in the wilds of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. He made...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2013
Tibet: Songs from Exile
Fifty years after the Chinese occupation of Tibet, there are still few recordings of genuine traditional music from Tibet’s rural...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: July/2013
Diaxas
Like an African version of Jamaica’s Sly & Robbie, Jam Groove are the London-based Senegalese rhythm duo of drummer Oumar...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
Bailar en la Cueva
Bailar en la Cueva (Dance in the Cave) starts much like any other Jorge Drexler album; the Uruguayan's gentle voice...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2014
Wayfinder
This recording from Canada-based sitarist Mohamed Assani successfully combines the melodic sophistication of the Hindustani tradition with a more contemporary...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
True Speech
This is one of the most dynamic and accomplished folk groups from Eastern Europe I've heard in a long time....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Hugh Masekela Presents: Songs Of Migration
Last year, Hugh Masekela and the theatre director James Ngcobo staged Songs Of Migration at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ has a versatile Concert Orchestra that has made something of a happy habit of venturing into...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
