Reviews
Work My Claim
Marking 30 years as a touring and recording musician, Brooks Williams offers up a collection of nine re-recorded, all-acoustic tracks...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
Blessed Sadness
Antoni O'Breskey has long been a prolific, border-denying, genre-splicing presence in his adopted Ireland. Italian-born with Argentinian roots, his musical...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2021
Plaza Francia Orchestra
While they were, respectively, the keyboardist/programmer and guitarist of Gotan Project, Swiss-raised Christoph H Müller and Argentinian Eduardo Makaroff helped...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018
Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet
This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2016
Daughter of the Spring
Reviewing Mor Karbasi's debut CD, it was tempting to compare her with Yasmin Levy, a fellow Jerusalemborn Sephardic singer. It...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: June/2011
Live at Vai Te Mihi
The Pacific’s Rapa Nui – popularly known as Easter Island – is one of the most remote inhabited islands in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2022
Zydeco: Black Creole French Music & Blues 1928-1972
Zydeco is Creole French for something lacking spice – food or gossip – and only came into common use in...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Rough Guide to Jewish Music
Klezmer is by far the most well-known Jewish music genre, to the extent that it is often the only one...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022
Cordé Serré
Celtic communities have helped to shape Québec's heritage and, whether of Breton, Cornish, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or Mannian origin, most...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2023
