Reviews
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Turkey on the Edge (Soundtrack)
Turkey, ruled since 2002 by an increasingly autocratic Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, experienced an unsuccessful military coup on July 15 2016....
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: May/2018
La Grande Fête
From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021
Dacw’r Tannau
Chris Jones started out singing unaccompanied traditional Welsh songs more than 20 years ago. He began picking up songs from...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
La Caminadora
Produced in under a month, this seven-track album of covers is a joyous whistle-stop tour through the energy and vibrancy...
Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: May/2019
The Whiting’s on the Wall
Paul Sartin and Paul Hutchinson just can’t help themselves. If ever one tune reminds them of another - for even...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2014
Gaita na Fábrica: Sounds from the Squeezebox Factory
The fábrica – as in factory – of the title refers to a physical space in Porto Alegre where Borghetti...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Release the Penguins
Flamenco, jazz and Gypsy swing mingle together in the world of the TG Collective, a guitar-led sextet from a British...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2012
American Folk Fantasies Vol 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade
Dick Connette doesn't see music in terms of white and black, urban or rural, folk or funk, blues or country....
Reviewed by Gerald Seligman in issue: October/2017
Tande-la
Observant musical tourists in Cuba have long noted the colourful undercurrent of Haitian folklore in the cabarets and dance troupes,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Fado Jazz
Fado Jazz is Júlio Resende’s first album with ACT Music, one of Europe’s leading jazz labels and home to extraordinary...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2022
