Reviews
Lullaby for Naila
How right-on do you like your music? The London Lucumi Choir is a community choir that doesn’t select through auditions....
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
West to West
If you had to sum up Nii Okai Tagoe in the reductionist shorthand pigeonholing that the modern world demands, ‘Ghanaian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Qasida
Rosario ‘La Tremendita’ & Mohammad Motamedi
This live CD bears witness to the meeting of Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi and flamenco singer-songwriter Rosario ‘La Tremendita’...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Ratja Yaliyali
Resident on Milingimbi Island, off the north coast of Australia's Arnhem Land, Stanley Gawurra Gaykamangu is a cousin of celebrated...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Remembrance
Imagine Tom Waits heading north and living for a while with Sámi musicians in Norway. Steinar Raknes has a voice...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Quiet Hum
The ‘West’ in this quartet's name refers to the North American West, and the band hails from Vancouver Island, which...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Locks & Bolts
There's innovation in the settings Nick Janaway and Sarah Owen bring to these traditional songs recorded live in Bristol in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Terre de Mon Poème
Behind the enigmatic stage names and identities of French singer Emilie Hanak lies a girl exploring her multiple roots through...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Hoje é Assim, Amanhã Não Sei
This album consolidates Ricardo Ribeiro's position as the finest male fado singer of his generation. Born in the early 80s,...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Lily
Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
