Reviews
Petrichor
Accordionist Paul Hutchinson, of Belshazzar’s Feast and The Pagoda Project, is a well-known and highly-regarded figure on the folk scene,...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
My Last Song: A Tribute to Macedonia’s Gypsy Queen
Esma Redžepova and Nune Brothers
As the title suggests, this album contains the last recordings of extraordinary North Macedonian vocalist Esma Redžepova, recorded in 2016...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Ansema We Stand
You know you can trust a double bassist whose mentors have included the Italian jazz bassist Giovanni Tommaso and the...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Cartografado
It is telling that the very first seconds in Cartografado are evocative not of fado, but of samba and choro....
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Del Canto Gitano: Music of Ancient Andalusia
The Moorish-occupied Iberian Peninsula, usually referred to as Al-Andalus, is an endless source of fascination. It was a period of...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
No Fixed Abode
Not to be confused with the long defunct New Orleans hip-hop outfit, TRÚ take their name from a mythological trio...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
An Bhuatais & the Meaning of Life
Lorcán MacMathúna's book-and-CD package, An Bhuatais & the Meaning of Life, is, as its title implies, ambitious – an attempt...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Õunaaia Album (Apple Orchard Album)
Mari Kalkun gave a memorable video stream of this album last spring in the blossoming orchard beside her house in...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Unearthing
This pairing of folk veterans comprises singer James Patterson and instrumentalist (and concertina maker) John Dipper, who has played with...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
