Reviews
In Which
Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2021
Tempo & Magma
The good news for anyone captivated by Tiganá Santana's exquisite The Invention of Colour is that his new release picks...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2015
Assaf
Sometimes an artist's story overshadows almost entirely their actual music. Such is the case here, where Mohammed Assaf has become...
Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: July/2016
Misneach
Tau & the Drones of Praise are led by Seán Mulrooney, and misneach is an old Irish and Scottish Gaelic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Jump Ups & Jollities
‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Mambo Ska
Long awaited (not least by themselves) the release of the third album from the Anglo-Cuban entertainment innovators follows colourful reports...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2010
Camino
Gustavo Santaolalla gets around. Whether on home visits to Argentina, European tours with Bajofondo or work trips around his adopted...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2014
Aligned
Itzhak Ventura is a ney specialist, mastering the Persian, Arabic and Turkish variants of this end-blown reed flute. He also...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2022
Hard Ground
The Rachel Hamer Band met on the folk degree course at Newcastle University. They play with gusto and confidence and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2017
