Reviews
Gaelré
Gaelré sees Belfast's Gráinne Holland delivering a spellbinding follow-up to her 2011 debut Teanga na nGael. Reunited with arranger and...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Sê
It’s never easy when someone, unable to fight destiny picks up on the same craft their parents excelled...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022
Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn
While her husband Béla Fleck has been busily recording with African musicians, Abigail Washburn has forged a productive collaboration with...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2020
Jamaica Folk Trance Possession: Mystic Music from Jamaica, Roots of Rastafari 1939-1961
This two-CD set is no less than a historic document, among the most important anthologies of Jamaican audio ever assembled....
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2013
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2017
Los Hijos de la Montaña
Following the success in 2016 of two collaborative albums – with novelty Smiths/Morrissey coverists Mexrissey and the more vital Tucson-based...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017
Between Us…
Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022
An Introduction to June Tabor	
June Tabor was a student at Oxford (and appeared on University Challenge, no less), and has worked as both a...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2018
The Watchmaker's Wife
This is a highly anticipated third album from the double-bassist and fine vocalist Miranda Sykes and mandolin maestro Rex Preston....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
El Canto del Viento
In 1965, the celebrated Argentinian folk artist Atahualpa Yupanqui published El Canto del Viento, a collection of proems that touched...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020
