Reviews
Music is Our Business
Not many names from the golden age of dancehall in the 80s seem worthy of a Best Of. The obvious...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2019
History
Whereas Salif Keita's recent album, Un Autre Blanc [reviewed in #146], only featured a lone foray into AutoTune vocals, the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2019
Sunny Afrika
After his professional musical start in Ghana in the 1970s as a member of the group Basa Basa at Faisal...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2019
Glaschu: Home Town Love Song
Gaelic songstress Mary Ann Kennedy returns with 16 tracks inspired by her home town – and a real labour of...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2019
Half Day Road
Not for nothing is Liz Carroll routinely referred to as a fiddler-composer, because almost immediately after they're written, the Chicago-born...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2019
On Tour/Reunion
It's 1965, British Guiana is on the cusp of independence, ready to throw off the corrupt yoke of Albion, and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
Otra Mirada: Tangos de Cámara
When Astor Piazzolla dragged tango, sitting (he didn't want any of that silly kicking) and screaming, into the concert space,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019
Resiliencia
Taína Asili is a New York-born Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, activist, punk rocker, filmmaker and freedom fighter whose songs, videos, documentaries...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
Stone Soup
Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes
This is an audacious piece of work by two accomplished musicians. Adam Summerhayes is a classically trained fiddler with a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2019
Ipê
This is the second release from the Paris-based trio comprised of Brazilians Pablo Schinke and José Ferreira on cello and...
Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: July/2019
