Reviews
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Dafné Kritharas | DafnÉ Kritharas
It needs to be said at the outset that Dafné Kritharas has a fantastic voice, it has a clear, pure...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2022
Times from Times Fall
This Orkney born and bred quartet – fiddlers Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Catriona Price, alongside pianist Jennifer Austin –...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2018
Aynaabe
The traditional bowed violin of the Senegalese Peul shepherds is called nianiorou or riti. Former shepherd Issa Sow is perhaps...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020
Harmony
In the entrance to the offices of Universal Records in Beijing, there’s a wall c o ve re d i...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2010
Al Qantara
Majid Bekkas is a Moroccan multi-instrumentalist who has previously explored the meeting points between Maghrebi Gnawa music and the blues....
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2014
Missing Chapters
Unique Cameroonian singer-songwritercum-stylist Moken follows up 2016's Chapters of My Life with Missing Chapters. He's in Atlanta, Georgia, having transplanted...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2019
One Love, One Life
Despite being an unremarkable figure during reggae's golden era in the 70s, Beres Hammond has created a contemporary two-disc album...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2013
Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961
Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Robbie Greig & Friends
Edinburgh-based and steeped in the Gaelic tradition, Robbie Grieg has enlisted a fine set of friends for his debut album,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2017
