Reviews
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This is Atongo Zimba’s first international release after 14 years and he could not have re-entered the musical fray in...
Reviewed by Bram Postumus in issue: January/February/2022
Outra Margem
It is a tricky path, the one Vila Navio find themselves exploring: taking Portuguese traditional music and injecting it with...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Klezmer from the New World
This is a clarinet and accordion duo, Susi Evans being one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day, playing...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2021
Silêncio
It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012
The Outlander
On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett
Emerging from The Gloaming's five-strong fold, Hardanger d'amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and pianist Thomas Bartlett have struck of to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019
Jaiyede Afro
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014
Musakayike
Although this duo from Malawi have been touring far and wide since the release of their last album in 2019,...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: August/September/2022
Alep-Brest
Aleppo in northern Syria has lived through tragedy. Its name now resonates with the pain of a brutal war, which...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
