Reviews
Te yn y Grug (Tea in the Heather)
Welsh musician Al Lewis is well established as a singer-songwriter, both as a solo artist and as half of Americana...
Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: May/2020
Amoreamaro
There many reasons to admire singer Maria Mazzotta: for her voice, of course, so brilliant, intimate and dramatic; for her...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2020
Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70
Apala is a style of call-and-response music popular in the Islamic culture of the Yoruba population of south-west Nigeria. It...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
Bonny Light Horseman
Seven years ago, Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer released Child Ballads, winning a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award the following...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
Amália Classics on Portuguese Guitar
While never the diva, Custódio Castelo has nevertheless been an animating presence in the world of fado for many decades...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: May/2020
Play Disco Specials
This is a reissue of the 1976 album originally released by the JAS Pride label in South Africa. The set-up...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2020
Puja
This is is the follow-up to Sanders' 2018 release, Java. As with that album, this, his third solo effort, features...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: May/2020
Siti of Unguja: Romance Revolution on Zanzibar
Siti Muharam is the greatgranddaughter of Siti Binti Saad, the woman who turned taarab from the inaccessible music of the...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020
In a Lifetime
Tickets are on sale for Clannad's farewell tour, and to go with it, various weights of a Best Of anthology,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020
