Reviews
Roots
North Carolina fiddler Andrew Finn Magill makes a convincing bid for wider recognition with Roots, the first in a projected...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
La Peña
Santaires, El Filón & Roberto Caldo
While the city of Buenos Aires boasts a couple of dedi¬cated FM tango music channels, its province – a huge...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
Mouse
The Schmoozenbergs may sound like a novelty band, but they are a quartet of classy musicians who clearly like to...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024
Weight of the World
There's a lot to like about this adventurous duet album by Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer. The former is a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Arctic Spirit: Music from the Siberian North
German & Claudia Khatylaev | Spiridon Shishigin | Zarina Kopyrina & Ilya Zhirkov
Sakha, or Yakutia, is a land of mammoths, gold and diamonds: a Siberian territory that sits atop permafrost and is...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
El Gaucho
El Gaucho is the superbly atmospheric soundtrack to Andrés Jarach's documentary road movie about Andrés Retamal, a taciturn Argentinian horse–...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010
Haiti: Meringue & Konpa 1952-1962
An earlier Frémeaux release, 2014's Dominican Republic: Merengue, excelled in profiling the small-combo and orchestra roots of merengue in the...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Les Routes de l'Esclavage 2 CDs & DVD
Sponsored by UNESCO and conceived by the Catalan musician Jordi Savall as a cultural history of slavery and a homage...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue:
The Friel Sisters
Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel were born and brought up in Glasgow, but the music they play is Irish. Their...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
