Reviews
Lo Mau d'Amor
Singers Paola Lombardo and Valeria Benigni are vocalists with distinctively different qualities: the former retaining her jazz upbringing, the latter...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2011
Picnic
Otherwise known as accordionist Sam Pirt andpercussionist Gary Hammond, The Hut People bring to their second full-length album much of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012
The Best of Soapkills
In 2009 I spent a week in Beirut lecturing on music journalism and asked each of my students to bring...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The Art of the Shakuhachi
Katsuya Yokoyama, one of the last great masters of Japanese traditional music, brings us an exemplary recording of 17th-century shakuhachi...
Reviewed by Darran Smith in issue: July/2017
The Voice of Lightness Vol 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993
The second two-disc volume of the definitive career overview of Tabu Ley Rochereau picks up the Congo’s greatest vocalist at...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2011
Man with a Love Song
Sophisticated and playful, the songs and tunes on this new album from Canadian ukulele sensation James Hill sound at times...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Quiet Forest, Flowing Stream
That the pipa player Gao Hong has long lived in the US is evident in this collection, which reveals a...
Reviewed by Joanna Lee in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Oliveiras
One should always try to forget any preconceptions when approaching a fado singer from abroad, with no real reputation or...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2018
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian
The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Jessie Summerhayes
Anyone who has spent time on Lindisfarne Island off Britain’s Northumbrian coast in the wintertime knows just how exposed it...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2021
Enregistré Live
Genticorum's four previous albums confirmed them as one of Quebec's most vibrant, energetic and exciting groups. They have developed a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2013
