Reviews
Spirit of Love
COB is the abbreviation of Clive’s Original Band though Cob, as the trio was sometimes called, is apt. Cob is...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Hunter
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Locked down doesn’t mean imaginations are locked up. In Hunter, song inspiration is global, despite being set down and sung...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Notes For a Maiden Warrior
Borders run through Dani Larkin’s life and work. A native of the Armagh/ Monaghan borderlands, she has worked in peace-building...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Live at Tou
A few years ago a group of musicians from the Slovakian Roma community came together with a group of musicians...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Petrichor
Accordionist Paul Hutchinson, of Belshazzar’s Feast and The Pagoda Project, is a well-known and highly-regarded figure on the folk scene,...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
My Last Song: A Tribute to Macedonia’s Gypsy Queen
Esma Redžepova and Nune Brothers
As the title suggests, this album contains the last recordings of extraordinary North Macedonian vocalist Esma Redžepova, recorded in 2016...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Ansema We Stand
You know you can trust a double bassist whose mentors have included the Italian jazz bassist Giovanni Tommaso and the...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Cartografado
It is telling that the very first seconds in Cartografado are evocative not of fado, but of samba and choro....
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
