Reviews
Calypso: Musical Poetry in the Caribbean 1955-69
This joyous compilation aims to demonstrate calypso's pre-ska popularity across the Caribbean region and beyond. The first calypso recordings were...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui
The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015
Matanë Malit
Increasingly often, recordings turn up for review that might perhaps be referred to under the heading ‘FAWMoR’ – Forcibly Assigned...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2013
All These Years
This finds Irish-American luminaries Solas celebrating two decades together in ebullient style. This crowd-funded collection of all-new material brings past...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2016
Despite the Dark
The opener ‘Dark Reel’ is an ambitious and blistering introduction to an album that is moody, earthy, haunting and passionate,...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2015
Tikounen
Can you have too many Touareg guitar records? Not when they’re as potent as this second album from Kel Assouf,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016
La Fasciculation
Their name translates roughly as the ‘Sons of a French Gypsy poodle.’ They were the official group at the annual...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017
So Bouzouk
On paper, the diverse musical elements that this album brings together – Kurdish traditional, flamenco and Parisian jazz – could...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2012
Ameriikan Laulu
Aallotar are a transatlantic ‘chamber folk’ duo, comprising Finnish accordionist Teija Niku and Finnish-American fiddler Sara Pajunen. In the early...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2019
