Like many Brazilian albums of this generation, it's evident that this self-titled release by Brazilian drummer Ronald Mesquita relies on...
Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: May/2019
Contracorriente, the third album from El Balcón, is alive with the unique vibrancy and musical playfulness of son jarocho, traditional...
Reviewed by Kary Stewart in issue: November/2021
There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2017
Most of the Austronesianlanguage songs from Taiwan featured on the latest instalment of Naxos World's Folk Music of China series...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: June/2020
For a short album, this packs a mighty punch. Variously a crate digger’s delight, an ode to the hopes of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2021
Coşkun Karademir's two previous albums in collaboration with international artists were both received with some critical acclaim. This is the...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2019
Unlike previous Stray Birds recordings, Magic Fire is mostly devoid of anything especially magical or combustible. Produced – or, more...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2016
Two giants of English folk from different generations come together with an album of tunes that follows on from their...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022
Whereas earlier albums had more to do with retro-futurism, on Anadolu Ejderi (Anatolian Dragons) past and present collide beguilingly as...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/February/2023
Danny Diamond's self-released Fiddle Music is an assured solo debut for the Dublin-born fiddler, who is a field recording officer...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
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