Reviews
Fire, Sweat and Pastis
While collaborations bring together performers from all over the world, a project between Finnish and Beninese musicians still seems an...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Control
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & Zantoda Mark III
Ambolley comes from the coastal twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi in the western region of Ghana and his impressive...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
Good Vibes
Taken from a prime period for Jamaican reggae, this compilation collects together a number of rare late 1970s cuts from...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2018
River Sisters
The female trio Sutari have a distinctive place in the Polish musical landscape. Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin and Zosia Zembrzuska...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
The Great Irish Famine
Ronan Kealy, aka Junior Brother, from County Kerry, was hailed The Irish Times’ Best Irish Act 2019, when his debut,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Valge Valgus
Flanders-born accordionist Hartwin Dhoore has been intimately involved with some of the most innovative and entertaining traditional-inspired music to emerge...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2022
Echo in the Valley
Although they've been married since 2009, Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, and clawhammer banjo player and singer Abigail...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
Sketches of Africa
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet once speculated on what Beethoven’s works might have sounded like if he’d been able...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Folk Music from Transylvania, Then and Now
The revival of authentic Transylvanian music was central to the Hungarian táncház (dance house) movement in the 1980s and 90s....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2018
Kiriki Club
A Birmingham-based sextet with backgrounds as various as clowning, dance, theatre and live art (hence a name inspired by Les...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2021
