The Waterford singer with crystalline tones, Karan Casey, and the Dublin guitar maestro John Doyle both made names for themselves...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2010
The Kasai Osharaku Preservation Society and Others
Available as a two-disc CD or 12” vinyl, this compilation is the latest in an ongoing preservation series by EM...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019
Marianne Faithfull was a complex lady. She was not just the languid pop star who recorded ‘As Tears Go By’...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Ceuzany used to front Cordas do Sol, whose album Lume d’Lenha was apparently bought by one in ten Cape Verdeans....
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2016
This is a simple, but fascinating meeting of French jazz flautist Joce Mienniel playing a Western Boehm-system classical flute and...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2022
This Manchester collective create spirited folk-rock of a distinctly 1969 vintage. The rapid-fire drums, guttural guitar, throbbing bass and backing...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Alune Wade | Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa
Since beginning his career in Ismaël Lô’s band more than 20 years ago, the Dakar-born, Paris-based singer and bassist Alune...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015
It was a fascination for Estonian chorales and folk music which brought these four musicians together in 2021, and a...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: August/2024
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