Reviews
Anamkhara
Piraeus-born Cretan lyra player Kelly Thoma is a pupil of Ross Daly and a part of the diverse group of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Songhive: Beelore & Folksong in the British Isles
Folk music often has a special relationship with the native flora and fauna of the land from which it springs....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018
Al Andalus
This is a strange and frustrating disc. It’s a digital remastering of an analogue recording first issued more than 30...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: July/2010
Céu e Mar
Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012
Vocês Querem Mate?
Vocês Querem Mate? is the latest instalment in Far Out's ongoing resurrection of the catalogue on Roberto Quartin's long-buried record...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2017
Waves of Joy: Bauls from Bengal
Born in Bengal in 1921, Bhattacharya came to the UK after World War II, worked for the Post Office and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2019
If I Greet the Mountains
Giorgis Xylouris, Stelios Petrakis, Periklis Papapetropoulos
It’s a common cliché to compare music to landscape, but it seems particularly appropriate in the dry, rugged but heroic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2010
Mulher do Norte
There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
Murmuration
Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
