Reviews
Rişar & Kupa 4
These songs stem from a perilous time in Turkish history when ethnic strife between Turks, Greeks and Armenians was beginning...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: April/2022
Kinshasa Succursale
Recorded in 2008, the story of Kinshasa Succursale has the trappings of a film script. Congolese-Belgian rapper-cum-dandy Baloji had turned...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Louder Than Words
After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2014
Beard Town
Even shorn of the street theatre, storytelling and occasional acrobatics of their stage shows, the Balkan-flavoured reckless abandon of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2016
Revelation
One of the less comfortable truths for fans of Middle Eastern music in the West is that most CDs released...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2015
The Angel's Share
The angels surely look down kindly on mellifluous fiddle and guitar parts, and on mournful tunes pulled up by the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016
Maidin Domhnaigh
Seamas Hyland left those rapscallions, The Mary Wallopers, last year. His first solo album, Maidin Domhnaigh (Sunday Morning) reveals his...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: August/2024
Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary
Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
Temple of Hope
How can a sense of beauty be found amid fear and cruelty? Saba Alizadeh, on his third album now, continues...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: February/March/2025
