Reviews
Rough Guide to Flamenco Dance
Many dodgy compila¬tions of flamenco on CD either feature long-dead or third-rate musicians. But this eclectic sampler by Jan Fairley...
Reviewed by Steve Carr in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Mabanzo
This bubbly singer jokes that she grew up ‘pretty much everywhere,’ and there are certainly a lot of influences present...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022
Up She Flew
In the near-decade since her solo debut, 2009's The Open Road, New York-born, Galway-based flautist Steph Geremia has immersed herself...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2018
Can't You Hear the Mountains Calling
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys feat Charlie Sizemore
From the time he formed the original Clinch Mountain Boys with his brother Carter Stanley, while bluegrass music was in...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
Songs from Home
There are three Polish women at the heart of Toronto-based band Polky, and Songs from Home refers both to their...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021
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
Seasons of Change
Recorded in Staffordshire's 19th-century Danebridge Methodist Chapel with guest players including Norway's Marit Fält (Vamm) on Nordic mandola and cittern...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Festival Flamenco Gitano
Imagine a time before the kaleidoscopic wonder of world music was available at the click of a mouse . Then...
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Pace Setters
In 1981 Brian Eno travelled to Ghana to produce an album by the eight-piece Afro-funk band Edikanfo. Shortly after its...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2020
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The recordings of Lead Belly, made between his discovery in prison in 1933 by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2015
