Reviews
Maputo Electronico
Smadj/Chico Antônio/Rhodalia Silvestre
This new Maputo Electronico combination involves the musical traditions of Mozambique and Tunisia, filtered through a French electronic gauze, its...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2022
Restless Nation: The Music of Andy Teirstein
Andy Teirstein/Marco Ambrosini/Yair Dalal/Mivos Quartet/Cassatt String Quartet
On one hand, ‘world music’ denotes a sound or style resulting from melding instrumentation (including vocalisation) drawn from different cultural...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022
The Bend in the Light
Hailing from K’jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, classically trained Ellen Gibling’s keen interest in Irish traditional music is given free rein...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2022
Delta Bound
‘In New Orleans,’ Holly Devon’s liner notes suggest, ‘memories linger in the humid air.’ Under the aegis of guitarist and...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2022
Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs
The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2022
Yeshi Dolma
Tenzin Choegyal, Katherine Philp & Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra
Yeshi Dolma is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between Tenzin Choegyal from Tibet and Australian Katherine Philp. They...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: June/2022
Nine Waves
For their second album on the excellent River Lea label, Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn, aka Ye Vagabonds, are joined...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022
Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds
Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver grew up listening to the calls of the curlew. It was a sound that made such...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: June/2022
Canzuni
Canzuni is a fine assortment of southern Italian folk songs. Calabria-born but a long-time resident of Naples, Ferrante is a...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2022
