Reviews
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The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records (1917-1927) Volume One
Think of this as a time capsule. But not just any time capsule. This is more like a 10kg, bunker-busting...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2014
Round 2
From the first notes this sounds like Nobel Prize material, if the committee ever decided that making people dance deserved...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
A Caribbean Songbook
You may well ask, “what's an album of Caribbean standards doing in the Pacific section?” Well, it makes sense when...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Sparrowmania!
Mighty Sparrow (born Slinger Francisco) is now 76 years old and seemingly still per¬forming and occas¬ionally issuing new recordings. With...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012
Sing Me Home
Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Ensemble in 2000 to explore the music of the cultures along the ancient...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016
Royal Traveller
Primarily known as a multiple award-winning bluegrass bassist, Missy Raines' penchant for pushing musical boundaries has also found her experimenting...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2019
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
The Search for Five Finger Frank
This mammoth set – 27 tracks in all – aims to rescue from obscurity the memory of Leeds folk-song collector...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2015
