Reviews
Ceòl Mòr/Light & Shade
Ceòl Mòr, which translates as ‘Great Music,’ is the classical music of the highland bagpipe. This is an instrument of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984
Makossa united the tastes of a divided Cameroon, not least because it was a musical style that could bend around...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2017
Two More Hours
A departure from the traditional music she has performed and recorded for several years - which has included an album...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2014
Moda Velha
During the 20th century Portugal was under the gloomy spell of one of the world's longest dictatorships – highly conservative...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016
Tournivelle
Tournivelle, the second release by La Cuivraille since the band’s founding by violinist Gabriel Lenoir in 2014, showcases a refinement...
Reviewed by Duog DeLoach in issue: April/2026
I Vine Speil (In the Mirror of Wine)
Mahsa Vahdat is one of the most courageous and enterprising of contemporary Iranian singers. Courageous bec ause despite restrictions on...
Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2011
Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia
One of the oddities of Brazilian music is the lack of strong, assertive male vocals: the kind of voices that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 1920s-1950s
Compiled by historian Alan Dein, Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World is both a historic document, chronicling...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2019
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Crossover
A mainstay of the Australian indigenous music scene over the last 20 years, singer Emma Donovan grew up in a...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021
Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound from Luanda 1968-1976
With its colonial links to Portugal, it is unsurprising that the music of Angola bears remarkable similarities to rhythms heard...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
