Reviews
Ruckus
The pun in this Canadian band's name denotes them as innovators in the klezmer genre: the Pale of Settlement was...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2018
Wotcheor!
The album cover has Jez tilting his boater and grinning into a camera like an old-fashioned MC, as if beckoning...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and Gambia
It has long been recognised that the banjo's history can be traced back to West Africa, though until recently it...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: April/2023
Misneach
Tau & the Drones of Praise are led by Seán Mulrooney, and misneach is an old Irish and Scottish Gaelic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Whip Jamboree
York six-piece Blackbeard’s Tea Party formed in 2009: first as a busking unit, then a ceilidh band and now as...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
Signo de Fuego
Eliane Correa is a fast-rising star. Probably the only woman to lead a large-format mixed gender Cuban timba-style band (there...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022
The Bridge that Links Time
Since their previous record, Chants Polyphoniques d’Albanie, an efficient survey of the remarkably varied unaccompanied songs of the Albanian south,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Pipa Potluck
The ‘potluck’ in the title of this album, a collaborative project led by Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong, refers to...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Vocalist Tülay German cut her teeth as a jazz singer in Istanbul nightclubs in the early 60s before bursting onto...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021
Brave Land
Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2022
