Reviews
Migrants
Lúcio is a seminal character in Cape Verdean culture, a singer, composer, poet, novelist, playwright, painter and politician who spent...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023
Pretty Peggy
The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Mulher do Norte
There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016
The Other Side of the Air
Canadian Jayme Stone can count his banjo playing as being just the beginning of a host of achievements on this...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2014
Sibling Revelry
Multi-instrumental sisters three, Máire and Mairéad Ní Chathasaigh and Nollaig Casey all have long, illustrious solo careers behind them. Here...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Greatest Jamaican Beat
Two Duke Reid-produced collections have been offset here to create a killer introduction to rocksteady reggae. The first, Greatest Jamaica...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2019
Edu Na Ka Vou
Founded in 2007 as a contemporary dance company, the ambitious group Vou (meaning ‘new’ in Fijian) have now attempted to...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011
Summertime
Les Bottines Artistiques (The Artistic Boots) are a young instrumental duo with faces as youthful as their music sounds. As...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2018
Nim: Taegum Collection
Hyelim Kim is one of Europe’s leading proponents of the taegum, a transverse bamboo flute that serves as a cornerstone...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
