Reviews
Criolo, Amaro & Dino
Criolo, Amaro Freitas & Dino D’santiago
Following on from the Grammy-nominated single ‘Esperança’, this unlikely trio has now released an excellent album, seemingly without much fanfare....
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2026
Éthiopiques 30: Mistakes on Purpose
For the better part of 20 years, Buda’s Éthiopiques releases have been the go-to series for Ethio-jazz and traditional music...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2017
Cumulus Spores
Masters of reimagined improvised music, Ana Kravanja and Samo Kutin might be better known for their excellent work as Širom...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: July/2020
Silver Sanctuary
Zedashe are an accomplished polyphonic choir from Georgia, based in the fortress city of Sighnaghi in the wine-growing area of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/2021
Stone Soup
Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes
This is an audacious piece of work by two accomplished musicians. Adam Summerhayes is a classically trained fiddler with a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
Ar Baradoz: Sacred Songs of Lower Brittany
Yann-Fañch Kemener, Florence Rousseau & Aldo Ripoche
The Breton music most familiar to us tends to be forthright: bagpipe bands, the talabard (bombard) or choirs singing lustily....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2018
Causeway Recordings
Endowed with an endearingly streetwise Scottish brogue; sharply honed clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica chops; and a flair for equally...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2022
Don Letts Presents: Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown Vol 2
Don Letts hosts an enjoyably eclectic radio show on BBC 6Music and is something of an icon of the late-70s...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015
Camarade Lézard
Gari Grèu is a stalwart of Marseille's seminal Massilia Sound System and a collaborator with Moussu T e lei Jovents....
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: June/2012
