Reviews
Lamentations
Papua New Guinea-born singer Ngaiire Joseph (pronounced ‘Ny-rie’) is a little lady with a great big voice. She moved to...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2014
Music of Vanuatu: Celebrations and Mysteries
Vanuatu is a fascinating place. Dubbed ‘New Hebrides’ by Captain Cook because it reminded him of those West Scottish isles,...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2014
Cerdd Dannau
Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2014
Lay Your Dark Low
This four-piece really do knock out a great song. They’re tight, confident and manage to make folk music sound contemporary...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2014
Live at Celtic Connections
Having spent six years creating and recording The Strathglass Trilogy, his ambitious three-album instrumental tribute to the land where his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2014
Lost & Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion
Lost & Undone is a bona fide gospel album, graced by songs popularised by legendary country and bluegrass artists and...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2014
The Irish Sea Sessions 2012
Like a younger, slightly stroppier cousin to Celtic Connections’ Transatlantic Sessions, the Liverpool Irish Festival’s Irish Sea Sessions bring together...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2014
Angola Soundtrack 2
This follow-up to 2010’s Unique Sound of Luanda trawls a similar time period. Subtitled Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Sonic Innovations...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2014
Clockwork Curiosities
Enter a labyrinth of aural deception in which you can trust nothing and no-one. The brainchild of Professor Singleton Purblind...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2014
New Songs From the Old Country
The tongue-in-cheek liner notes for this release, the fourth by this amalgamation of New York-based jazz and world musicians, sets...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2014
