Reviews
Danças de Porto de Mós
Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022
Hadal Deluxe Edition
This deluxe edition collects Texas-based jazz quartet Atlas Maior’s recorded output from the past four years. It’s an album of...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2024
Nar
Singer Christiane Karam draws on both her Lebanese and Armenian heritage to deliver a richly textured and multilayered album that...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2022
Mexico: Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan
If you have ever happened to find yourself in a South American village when a fiesta is taking place, you’ll...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010
Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks
According to one story, the last music heard by the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the night before going to his death,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Rough Guide to the Music of Russian Gypsies
With the exception of the excellent Russian Gypsy Soul double CD on Network a few years back, Russian Gypsy music...
Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
A Sound Heart
Whatever/Whoever is the translation of Jaubi (pronounced jaw-bee) and ‘whatever sounds good’ is the band’s guiding principle. The Pakistani jazz...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2024
Sé Nam
The party never stops on Sé Nam, an album designed to sweat to. While there's an edge to tracks like...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025
Forever is 4 You
This could just as well be by a Malawi Mouse Boy, rather than Boys, as the music is so minimalist...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2016
The Deepest Breath
2020’s Solas an Lae saw Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin striking away from his Skipper’s Alley roots in the company of Ultan...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
