It's always a pleasure with world music – and especially so with Latin American rhythms – to be disorientated. When...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
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
Multiinstrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020
Listening to veteran Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach's tenth album is a tender and touching experience. The title-track opens with the...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2017
This is some straight-up knee-slapping, line-dancing, hat-tippin’, hoedown-swinging, Bayou-swimmin’ stuff! If that's not your thing, you’re probably not going to...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Bobby Osborne's latest album is an engaging compendium of tunes by some of Memphis' finest songwriters, from the 86-year-old high-lonesome...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017
When Tinariwen stormed the citadel of the mainstream music industry, a wave of guitar-toting Touaregs followed in their wake, picking...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2012
I was first drawn to the music of Stephan Micus by his piece written for 56 flowerpots in the 1980s....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
Most of the Austronesianlanguage songs from Taiwan featured on the latest instalment of Naxos World's Folk Music of China series...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: June/2020
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