Unfortunately this album doesn’t quite have the visceral clout promised by its excellent Waitsian title, although it’s hard to put...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Etenesh Wassie & Mathieu Sourisseau
The collaboration between Ethiopian singer Etenesh Wassie and the French bass guitarist Mathieu Sourisseau has already yielded one album back...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2018
The instrument known as the marovany is a Malagasy zither – a hollow, wooden, rectangular-shaped box with 12 metal strings...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/2021
It wasn't until Caetano Veloso spoke highly of him in his blog that Antonio Zambujo began getting the due recognition...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Led by Richard Morse, proprietor of the celebrated Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, RAM were last heard from before the disastrous...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2018
The Imagined Village began not so much as a band but a concept – melding multi-cultural Britain with its folk...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010
Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023
Cecilia Zabala, Don Davis & Joe Deleault
Languid and loose, filled with clever arrangements and multilingual lyrics placed just so, this long-gestating passion project comes from a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019
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