Reviews
Grá agus Bás
As a signee of the powerhouse American label Nonesuch, Donnacha Dennehy rubs shoulders with world music luminaries like the Buena...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2011
Esencia
Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
Les Rives
There’s a history to this project. The prolific guitarist Titi Robin has long collaborated with Gypsy, Indian, and qawwali artists....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012
Keep Me Waiting
If your tastes run to traditional bluegrass and folk music with a nod to contemporary Americana, you'll find Chicago-based Big...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo
Starting of with a ringing guitar chord that seems to signal dread, the latest from Brazil's Lucas Santtana is inextricably...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2019
By the Night
With their 2016 debut Call Me Home, the folk trio of Christina Alden, Alex Patterson and Noel Dashwood applied the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Brésil: Le Chant du Nordeste 1928-1950
With Brazil's north-east so strongly identified in recent decades with the whirl of forró, you'd be forgiven for thinking its...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2010
Music of Southern & Northern Laos
Sound recordist Laurent Jeanneau has spent years travelling among the ethnic minority cultures of Laos and Cambodia. This two-CD set...
Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2018
The Best of the SABC Years
Starting her career in the 1950s, Irene Mawela wrote songs for the Dark City Sisters and the Mahotella Queens, was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2019
Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran
One suspects there isn’t a lot of dancing going on in Syria just now. But anyone who, in happier times,...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2013
