Reviews
El Rumor de los Tangos
This album gave me an epiphany – of the wrong kind. Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson once wrote, ‘if nostalgia...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012
The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection
The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
Carn Ingli
Llio Rhydderch & Tomos Williams
A revered harpist, steeped in the music of Wales; a young jazz trumpeter; and a percussionist. This might seem an...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011
Pickin’-n-Chckin’
Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys
In most cases, the borders between the band’s Prince Edward Island homeland and the rest of North America aren’t apparent...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Round Top Wagon
Thomas McCarthy was brought up on the Travellers’ site in Ladbroke Grove, although he spent a lot of time in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Shadows Tall
The award-winning pairing of singer and pianist Siobhan Miller from Penicuik near Edinburgh and singer and fiddler Jeana Leslie from...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011
Greekadelia
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis
Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Kristi Stassinopoulou absorbed influences ranging from Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: October/2012
