Reviews
Amor y Muerte
This CD comes with a bright cover illustration and is full of roaring horns and fiery percussion. But this Brighton-based...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2015
Based on True Events
After forming on a boat (the MV Halton) during the 2007 Orkney Folk Festival this quartet – consisting of Adam...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2012
El Callegüeso y su Mala Maña
Cali is known as the home of salsa in Colombia, a reputation based on the way they dance it, rather...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017
Tangos Pendientes
The fourth track on this album is ‘Jacinto Chiclana’, a poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Its music is folksy and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
A Garland for Joey: The War Horse Songbook
In the 1980s John Tams brought folk music to Britain's National Theatre in famous productions of The Mysteries and Lark...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2018
Himlen Har Sove Bort Mørkret
Sigrid Moldestad is highly respected for her fiddle and Hardanger playing, not to mention her singing. For years she’s been...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2013
Picasso
Legendary French band The Gipsy Kings consist of two sets of brothers – the Baliardos and the Reyes. The Baliardos...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012
Rough Guide to Brazilian Café
That the 50s singer Connie Francis was not so long ago hot DJ currency in Sao Paulo is perhaps the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
An Angel Fell
It's appropriate that it's the German Strut label, home of the recent programme of Sun Ra re-releases, that has helped...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018
Música Universal
A capella music is surely even more of a matter of taste than Marmite, Jeremy Corbyn or coprophilia. While I...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2019
