Reviews
Diyarbekiri Hokin: Armenian Songs from Dikranagerd
There have been a number of interesting releases to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide in 2015. There was...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2016
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90 years (1925-2015)
Composer Mikis Theodorakis is a Greek national institution, best known overseas for his soundtracks to Zorba the Greek and Serpico....
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
À Flor da Pele
It was inevitable that fado, like any other musical genre, would find a new audience (even in its home country)...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2010
Oes i Oes
Cass Meurig and Nial Cain have worked together for a number of years now. Their intimate and sensitive renditions of...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2013
Folk Awards 2012
Proper Records have been putting out these compilations, based on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominations, since 2005 and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012
Tantas Lisboas
Marco Rodrigues’ fado is a little bit different from everyone else’s these days. With a past in pop music, the...
Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Music of Central Asia Vol Nine: In the Footsteps of Babur
This ninth CD in the impressive Aga Khan Trust for Culture series of music from Central Asia takes Babur, the...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010
Canibalismo
Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) is the rock‘n’roll of Latin music. More about feeling and attitude than other regional styles, it...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya
This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020
