Reviews
The Castalia
Edinburgh based fiddler Ratcliff’s beguiling debut is an evocative blend of traditional music cultures of Cape Breton, New Brunswick and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2022
The Unquiet
This new solo album from vocalist Pauline Scanlon offers striking, singularly personal interpretations of ten traditional songs that range from...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2022
The Seer
The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odhar, was a legendary 17th-century Gaelic prophet whose writings are the focus for this moody new...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2017
The End
“The sound of the album is supposed to take the organic instruments of Irish traditional music and lift them somewhere...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2025
Chameleons of the White Shadow
He might be still in his 20s, but Joseph Tawadros matches precociousness with prolificacy. Chameleons of the White Shadow is...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2013
The Great Irish Famine
Ronan Kealy, aka Junior Brother, from County Kerry, was hailed The Irish Times’ Best Irish Act 2019, when his debut,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022
Turn up the Quiet
Is it possible ever to tire of the Beatles back-catalogue? Unless you are a Brazilian (in whose country they are...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2013
Mozafar Shafii & the Râst Ensemble
Mozafar Shafii & the Râast Ensemble
Iranian singer Mozafar Shafii was an early student of the well-known Mohammed Reza Shajarian. So Shafii is senior to the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters
Robert Plant refreshingly continues to refuse to be defined by his past. Backed by his eclectic live band the Sensational...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
The Sound of the Soul
Debashish Bhattacharya is one of the world's great musical innovators. He's a composer and virtuoso guitarist, who transformed the Indian...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2023
