Reviews
Quiero Creedence
The unlikely inspiration for this exuberant Latino tribute to the songs John Fogarty wrote for his band Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Red Mountain Blues
Chris Murphy should be a household name by now, having spent the past 25 years playing with some of the...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2017
Fair Warning
Kami Thompson and James Walbourne's first release on Island's Pink Label imprint, once home to the likes of Fairport Convention,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Ministry of Carnival
It seems as though every month, if not every week, there is another take on Gypsy music through Western ears....
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2012
Daou Don Dãns
Visitors to Brittany are almost certain to encounter a bagad, the bagpipe, drum and bombarde(shawm) bands through which, since the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2016
Thulth
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh plays a unique role in the Arabic music world. Based in Cairo, he is a Palestinian multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2016
Little Hinges
Structured in two parts, Qristina and Quinn Bachand's third album finds the Canadian siblings on a mission to broaden the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2015
The Seventh Wave
If you were lucky enough to witness Skipinnish at Celtic Connections in 2016, at a Glasgow Royal Concert Hall packed...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: August/2017
Roots
North Carolina fiddler Andrew Finn Magill makes a convincing bid for wider recognition with Roots, the first in a projected...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Amber Sands
An Ireland-based, Austrian-born fiddle player and composer, Schwab's solo debut comes after globe-hopping collaborations with the likes of Austrian string...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014
