Reviews
Escape That
This is Sweeney's first album of self-composed songs, its 11 tracks comprised of more than 20 pieces, written during lockdown...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2022
Vamos a Bailar un Son (Special Edition)
Eliades Ochoa | Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares
A new record by the greatest living exponent of eastern Cuban traditional son, showcasing again his unmistakeable nasal guajiro voice...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: December/2022
Agô
The title of this album from percussionist, singer, composer and bandleader Dendê Macêdo means ‘To Ask Permission’ in Yoruba, the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2022
Sorrows Away
The Unthanks have been closing their concerts with the title-track of their new album and finding that audiences are singing...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022
Gracious Wings
Since her eponymous debut, released in 2006, through the stellar likes of Hyperboreans, Saturnine and Lullabies, Jackie Oates has proved...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022
Afar Ways
The 74-year-old Momina is a member of the nomadic Afar people, a Muslim ethnic group who inhabit the desert regions...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of the Black British Experience
The title tells us of this album’s focus, but nothing quite prepares us for the introduction: spoken word written by...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2022
High Doh
Damian McKee, Gudrun Walther & Aaron Jones
Over the last 15 years, Damian McKee (button box) of Beoga, Gudrun Walther (fiddle, vocals) from CARA and Aaron Jones...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022
