Reviews
Atlantic Beat: Mad’in Portugal
There is a variety of ways of ordering a coffee in Portugal: OqueStrada tells us all about it in ‘Café...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Rough Guide to Flamenco Guitar
Since its genesis in the 18th century, the flamenco guitar has changed little. Its use, however, has shifted from being...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Rough Guide to Fado Legends
It's only natural that for every musical genre there is one voice that stands out and outshines everyone else. If...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
In the Wake of Neil Gunn
In the early 20th century Neil Gunn was one of the most prolific and influential writers in Scotland, with a...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Voice + Vision: Songs of Resistance, Democracy and Peace
‘The Internationale’ was Topic Records’ first ever release, with the jollier ‘The Man that Waters the Workers’ Beer’ on the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Lose an Hour
Fiddle and mandolin player Tom Newell, guitarist Alex Bishop and accordionist Aidan Shepherd are the talented young trio Effra and,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Kaustinen Live 2003
Thankfully someone had the good sense to blow the dust off some tapes from this fantastic concert performed a decade...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Herself and Myself
Thomas McCarthy is an Irish Traveller who, when he was a child, lived on a site beneath the Westway, the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
