Reviews
Aire!
Galicia in north-western Spain is a world apart, comparable perhaps to Dingle in Ireland. Folk music traditions are passed down...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
The High Note Mento Collection
Mento was the first Jamaican popular music, a mix of calypso and local rhythms that won popularity across the island...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2021
Almas Conectadas
This is Quantic's second full-length release with Colombian singer Nidia Góngora (although they have been working together for over ten...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021
La Grande Fête
From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Anatolian Dances
It is interesting to see and hear how Turkish wedding dances have changed over the years. From slow and decorous...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021
Contracorriente
Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...
Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021
Resilience: Songs of Uganda
A former member of Uganda's longest lasting and most celebrated group the Afrigo Band, Rachel Magoola has released her seventh...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2021
Naaljos Ljom
I like my Norwegian folk music with an earthy, gritty, dirt under the fingernails sort of sound. I wasn't expecting...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2021
Adeline
John Showman, Chris Coole, Adrian Gross, Sam Allison, Mark Kilianski
Last March, a quintet of old-timey/bluegrass/Americana string specialists gathered at a cottage on the shores of Beaver Lake in the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
