Reviews
Tangaria
French accordionist Richard Galliano knocks out an album or two every year and tours widely as a sort of ambassador...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2010
Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine
Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2018
Lily
Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Fly
Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...
Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: July/2019
The Newpart
Canadian fiddler, singer and step dancer April Verch has been a figure on the Canadian folk scene since the early...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015
Guajira Mas Guajira
More than half a century ago, Maria Ochoa used to sit in a hammock on the family's farm in rural...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016
Overflow
Edwin Sanz spent years playing congas with European-based salsa ambassadors Mercadonegro and then had a spell in Rodrigo y Gabriela's...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016
Manga
Back in 2013, when Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade released her fourth album, Lovely Difficult, it was already obvious pop...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2019
Morso
Guitarist and singer Dimitris Mystakidis is well-versed in the traditions of both Greek folk music and, especially, rebetika. And he...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2023
