Reviews
Blue
On your first listen to this album, you’ll be immediately struck by its ‘crossover’ nature – the fusion of baroque...
Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: December/2020
Um Corpo no Mundo
When Salvador established itself as the ‘African soul’ of Brazil in the mid-20th century, it was the music of Dorival...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Second Nature
Recent winners of Best World Music Group at Canada’s Folk Music Award, Toronto’s Minor Empire bring a subtlety to this...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2012
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
Move
Toronto’s Sultans of String continue their Spanish-guitars-and-fiddle road trip with their third album. Something of a travelogue that careers across...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2012
Bahdja
Manuel Hermia & Kheireddine Mkachiche
Though best known for jazz, Manuel Hermia's oeuvre traverses a wide range of musical genres and styles. The Belgian saxophonist,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019
Three Thin Dimes
Matt Gordon & Leonard Podolak with Bill Shanley
On Three Thin Dimes, acclaimed fiddler Matt Gordon, of the Fiddle Puppet Dancers band, and clawhammer specialist Leonard Podolak (best...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2013
This Land is Your Land
With a generous 50 tracks, this release is as good a retrospective as it is possible to squeeze onto two...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2011
Rádio Kriola
The idea could have proved a little too ambitious, but the truth is that in a single grasp Catarina Dos...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2018
