Reviews
Foxglove & Fuschia
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh's first solo album in five years sees the former Danú frontwoman returning to her West Kerry roots...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2018
Danzas Brancas
SonDeSeu, led by veteran composer Rodrigo Romaní, is a sprawling folk orchestra that combines a quintet of gaitas with armies...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2014
The Deepest Lake
Four years since Cannibal Courtship, Dengue Fever's fifth studio album of original material is self-released under the banner of Tuk...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: March/2015
Tribalistas II
One uses the term ‘supergroup’ with caution, but Tribalistas unite three giants of MPB, (Música Popular Brasileira). The golden-voiced Marisa...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
Trio Mocotó
How pleasing that Mr Bongo is reissuing this 1977 self-titled album by Brazilian samba-rock pioneers Trio Mocotó, as despite their...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: March/2019
Vivencias en Clave Cubana
Kiki Valera is a fantastic cuatro (double-coursed, steel-strung guitar, much like a tres but with one extra string) player. Valera,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2020
Actitud Calle
With a Banksy-style graphic on the cover, a photo from the commemorative marchofthe 40th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Power Punch!!!
An apt title indeed! Owiny Sigoma Band have aimed high and stolen the electronic Afro-roots crown. Their music has become...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2013
Allt
Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre
This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
