Reviews
Music from Greece
In the summer of 1979, Greek folk singer Domna Samiou (1928-2012) toured Sweden (with a band and dance troupe) performing...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Ela Ela
This is a Franco-Malagasy fusion led by Berikely who sings and plays the kabossy (an acoustic box guitar with four...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2022
Strong
As Iness Mezel's album opens she is very much mistress of her own funk-rock-fusion domain. Her powerful, heavily reverbed voice...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2015
An Irish Viola/Vióla Gaelach
Séamus McGuire with Steve Cooney
Novelty in a musical tradition as ancient as Ireland’s is not easily come by. But this unexpected pairing of viola...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2022
My Vote Dey Count
Yaaba Funk are very much a London band: British and European, black and white, mixed-gender and politically engaged but intent...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2014
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
My Bluegrass Heart
Bela Fleck's paean to the genre in which the banjoist established himself as a virtuosic instrumentalist and innovative composer is...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2021
Tango Argentino Today
El Afronte Orquesta Típica are rising stars in the world of tango. For good reason, too: the Buenos Aires ten-piece...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2019
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
