Reviews
Encuentro
An encounter with tango can easily spawn a kind of fanaticism, typically among non-Argentinians who become enraptured with its familiar...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Fiesta Tropical
‘From Havana to Rio, it’s party time’ announce the liner notes accompanying this concoction crossing eras, musical styles and performers...
Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: March/2010
Drifters & Vagabonds
With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Tir
Tir is one of the words in Welsh for ‘Land’, but, more than its English equivalent, it suggests a connection...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011
Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke developed Ethio-jazz in the 1960s, and he’s not stopped since, constantly forging new paths for...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2025
Le Bonhomme Sept Heures: The Bonesetter
Grosse Isle, the island in the St Lawrence River in Québec, was famously an immigration/quarantine depot for Irish immigrants escaping...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God
The Sorcerers' second album presents itself as the ‘soundtrack to the motion picture,’ but don't be looking for it on...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020
ARC
Although this is only McGoldrick's fifth solo album in 22 years and his first since 2010, the genial Manchester-based flute,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018
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Cocanha, Los Sara Fontán & Tarta Relena
Getting three different duos with very assertive personalities in the same studio and expecting it to work may sound a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2026
Chasing the Light
The Birmingham-based Old Dance School’s debut album Forecast was full of the first flush of recording excitement; a follow-up was...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
