Reviews
The Strings of São Domingos
Gently swaying rhythms as effortless as lapping waves, melodies infused with the sweet melancholic longing of saudades: the music of...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2022
Meanders
A Labrador, catching the scent of rabbits in the bushes, sniffs about. ‘Polly in the Wood’, one of several lovely...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Cor Amant
The textures and timbres produced by this all-female string quartet are quite unlike any other. Tokso bring together the reedy,...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2014
Monkey Man & From the Roots
It's likely that everyone reading this magazine will have heard of Toots Hibbert, the 76-year-old legend of Jamaican music who...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2018
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Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
This album is a new venture for Cape Breton fiddle supremo Natalie MacMaster, in two respects. First, she has recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015
Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia
Mario Bakuna & Edmundo Carneiro
This is a lovingly constructed collection of compositions designed to cross the boundary between music and anthropology, to create a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: May/2019
Tirade
First performing together during a packed session in Glasgow in 2013, Eddie Seaman (pipes, whistle and bouzouki) and Luc McNalty...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017
Jazz Batá 2
As a master of Cuban piano, any new release by Chucho Valdés is sure to spark excitement among Latin music...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2019
Vicennial: 20 Years of The Hot 8 Brass Band
The mighty Hot 8 Brass Band have been blowing the greasiest funk- and rap-influenced street brass sound for 20 years...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
