Reviews
El Violento
‘El Violento’? Julio Ernesto Estrada, aka Fruko, who ran for Colombia’s senate in 2013? One hopes not. The veteran of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
Robert Earl Keen's latest album kicks off with a funky little hoedown by Flatt & Scruggs, ‘Hot Corn, Cold Corn.’...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2015
Easy and Bold
The label Veteran specialises in English, Scottish and Irish traditional folk, with a focus on the source singers you might...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
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Pueblo Vivo (Vibrant People)
It's always a pleasure with world music – and especially so with Latin American rhythms – to be disorientated. When...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Tangaria
French accordionist Richard Galliano knocks out an album or two every year and tours widely as a sort of ambassador...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2010
Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983
Admirers of 70s African music are living in high-cotton times, thanks to admirably dogged labels like Soundway and Analog Africa....
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Hell Yeah!
This is some straight-up knee-slapping, line-dancing, hat-tippin’, hoedown-swinging, Bayou-swimmin’ stuff! If that's not your thing, you’re probably not going to...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Guitars From Agadez Vol 3
When Tinariwen stormed the citadel of the mainstream music industry, a wave of guitar-toting Touaregs followed in their wake, picking...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2012
Inland Sea
I was first drawn to the music of Stephan Micus by his piece written for 56 flowerpots in the 1980s....
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2017
