Reviews
The Hell of Helene: Songs for Appalachian Relief
Helene was hell, alright. The deadliest inland hurricane in US history cut a catastrophic path through six southeastern states from...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: February/March/2025
The Call
In the two years since the release of their duo debut, The Queen's Lover, guitarist Russell and fiddle-player Algar have...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014
The Sisypheans
An apt title, perhaps, for a singular double act whose relentless international touring has seen them achieve cult status as...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
The Reckoning
Topic's series of reissues from its back catalogue in celebration of its 80th year continues to impress with this deluxe...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019
The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo
Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016
In the Mood for the Nouba
For serious students of North African music and aficionados of the rarified and demanding canon of Arab– Andalus poetic tradition,...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2011
The Right Combination
Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & the Cajun Country Revival
Joel Savoy (pronounced the Cajun French way, ‘Joelle Savoie’) has become a central figure in the ‘Acadian Uprising’, a second-generation...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011
Afrolution Vol 2: The Original African Hip-Hop Collection
This second edition of African hip-hop compilations from the UK label Afrolution is a masterstroke of music collecting, a vibrant...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Le Bonhomme Sept Heures: The Bonesetter
Grosse Isle, the island in the St Lawrence River in Québec, was famously an immigration/quarantine depot for Irish immigrants escaping...
Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021
