Reviews
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
Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia
Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020
Las Historias Que Han Dejado
Latin America’s folk fusion traditions share common roots in Spain, West Africa, Poland, France and other Old World cultures, often...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2022
