Reviews
Small Towns and Famous Nights
This is their first album, but Alan Kelly (piano accordion), Tola Custy (fiddle), Steph Geremia (flute and vocals) and Tony...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Renaissance
Tonino Baliardo, one of the founding members of Gipsy Kings, is back with his first album in more than eight...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2023
Pura Vida (Banda Sonora)
Mísia was integral to the new wave of fadistas in the 1990s, helping to revitalise the genre with new influences,...
Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2019
Veracruz: Sones y Flores
Think of a male/female acoustic guitar duo, add Mexico to the equation and you may well come up with Rodrigo...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2021
Butterfield Green N16
As the voices on the first track of this album fade in, we know we are in for a treat...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Apr/May/2013
Kekete Bue
One of the first Congolese artists to come to Europe and popularise the commercial soukous sound at the beginning of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2022
The Upsetter/Scratch The Upsetter Again
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters
While this single CD containing two albums is credited to ‘The Upsetter’, the man behind the magic across the 24...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Roll Up the Night Sky
Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2015
Recalibrate
From the first beats of ‘I Wanna Talk to You’, the opening track of Eccodek’s fifth studio album Recalibrate, you...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: August/September/2022
New Anything
Leveret are a squeezebox trio: Sam Sweeney on fiddle and viola; Rob Harbron on English concertina; and Andy Cutting on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015
