Tango music is going through a quiet period, as evidenced by the number of compilations and reissues in circulation. In...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Steve Riley is one of Cajun music's foremost accordionists and bandleaders: the Mamou Playboys have, under his leadership, developed into...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Swedish jazz-bassist Jormin here teams up once again with the highly distinctive voice of Lena Willemark, as they did on...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Composer Mikis Theodorakis is a Greek national institution, best known overseas for his soundtracks to Zorba the Greek and Serpico....
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The Revelers hail from Lafayette, the capital of Cajun country, and consist of six young musicians schooled in the local...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Within the first few bars of ‘Tilt-a-Whirl’, the opening track of The Railsplitters’ second album, you hear pitch-perfect harmony singing,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Born in Guinea-Conakry, singer and percussionist Amara Touré wandered peripatetically across West African music for 20 or so years –...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
In Cuba it's all about a nueva era right now. With Fidel Castro convalescing, his younger brother Raúl rubbing shoulders...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The opener, ‘The Two Sisters’, sets the scene for a rather sweet and graceful debut from the Scots-born singer, Robyn...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
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