Reviews
The Rough Guide to Irish Music
Recession and emigration has taken its toll in recent years on Ireland’s traditional music scene, with pub closures, rising alcohol...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2013
A New Tango Songbook
Ostensibly, this is an unlikely combination. In the red corner: Christoph Müller from Switzerland and Eduardo Makaroff of Argentina, two...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2015
Kongo
Since 1991 this group from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo has been developing its folkloric drum and dance act...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2018
Safar
Here comes another new project from the new Tunisia. Except it is not quite the new Tunisia, but rather, the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014
Tuath: Songs of the Northlands
Brian Ó hEadhra & Fiona Mackenzie
Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona Mackenzie have been working together for 25 years now, notably in the bands Anam and...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020
Santana IV
The ground-breaking Afro-Latin rock fusion of Carlos Santana and his band set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival and opened the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
Respeitosa Mente
Although there is no obvious trace of Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil in Respeitosa Mente, it is hard to imagine...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2019
Shaman!
With the return of original band member Dr Margaux Simmons on flute, the Pyramids are now seven. This alone helps...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2020
Painted
Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2017
