Reviews
So Delicious!
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Following their album of gospel songs last year, So Delicious! picks up where this hard rocking country blues trio's 2012...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015
Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
Preservation matches a wildly diverse collection of 20 well-known performers (The Blind Boys of Alabama, Angélique Kidjo, Merle Haggard and...
Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: October/2010
Oh, What A WorldFolk Europa FECD 030
What if Jimi Hendrix had heard the playing of a Transylvanian village primás? What if Béla Bartók were to have...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010
¡Saoco! Vol 2
With its subtitle, Bomba, Plena and the Roots of Salsa in Puerto Rico 1955¬1967, this second big Vampisoul sampler tries...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Mania Regressia
You can only get away with a name like this if you are Jewish, of course, and Jewish Monkeys consists...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
What's Here What's Gone
Since releasing his debut album as a melodeon player back in 1994 aged just 17, Daniels been an in-demand player...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
Eghass Malan
This album of Touareg/Tamashek music from Niger is of a similar cultural background to popular groups like Etran Finatawa and...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2018
La Diablera
French-based Argentinian band La Típica Folklórica are trying quite a curious experiment: utilising the format and heft of the traditional...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022
Gamelan of Central Java XII: Pangkur One
‘Pangkur’ is the keystone of the repertoire of central Javanese gamelan, a tune that anyone acquainted with the music is...
Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2010
Resonance
The musical pedigree of Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby goes back to the late 1970s, when he founded the pioneering Aboriginal...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017
