Reviews
Wapna’kik: The People of the Dawn
The Mi’kmaw people have lived on the eastern coasts of Canada from New Brunswick to Newfoundland since time immemorial, fishing,...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2025
The Lost Songs of World War II
It is truly extraordinary how so many treasures of Jewish music got lost or were concealed behind the Iron Curtain...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ has a versatile Concert Orchestra that has made something of a happy habit of venturing into...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Linval Tompson Trojan Roots Album Collection
He may not be a huge name in the world of reggae, but Linval Tompson is much more than a...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2020
The Rough Guide to Tango Revival
While you are listening if not dancing to this great sequence of tangos, you might ponder the reasons as to...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection
The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019
The Good is a Big God
Over the years, I have returned to Rio drummer Domenico Lancellotti's collaborations with Moreno Veloso and Alexandre Kassin - the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1
Cleveland Watkiss is known both as a gifted jazz vocalist and a founding member of Metalheadz – the drum’n’bass outfit...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022
The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo
This musical romp along the Silk Road imagines the musical cultures the 13th-century explorer Marco Polo may have encountered on...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Apr/May/2014
France, Gascony: The Bagpipes of the Moorlands
The Gascony moorlands, a region of flat, isolated, humid grassland stretching from Bordeaux down to the start of the Basque...
Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: October/2018
