Reviews
River Strings: Maninka Guitar
With the kind of pedigree Guinean guitarist Djessou Mory Kanté has – brother to the late, lamented Kante Manfila, and...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Choral Music from Persia
In light of recent events concerning Iran this previously unreleased recording from 1978 seems fortuitously well-timed. Not least because it...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Reprobates
‘The Steam Arm Man’, which opens this new set from the rock’n’ceilidh barnstormers from York, sports a Black Sabbath-style riff...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016
Calypso Travels
Lord Invader & His Calypso Group
One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
To the Awe
With the same band she used for her award-winning Here’s My Heart Come Take It (drummer/producer Mattie Foulds, violinist Lauren...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
Life as a Song: Sephardic Songs from the Balkans at the end of the 19th Century
Shira u'tfila's previous release swept you away with its heady mix of sacred and profane. On their new CD, they...
Reviewed by Dennis Marks in issue: July/2010
Extra-Deluxe-Supreme
The nine-piece New York-based ensemble Hazmat Modine may just be my favourite American roots band and their third studio album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
The Path of Stones
A member of Solas, Usher's Well and the crack trio of McCusker, McGoldrick and Doyle, as well as an assured...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020
