Reviews
Alpen Klezmer: Zum Meer
For the past few years Andrea Pancur has been fusing her expertise in klezmer with her Bavarian roots and in...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2017
En Español
In the US, the Mavericks are packaged to the mainstream as a country band. They can play anything, from rockabilly...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020
Rough Guide to Bluegrass
Call me a sucker for heart-wrenching songs about hard-living folks, but this compilation of 18 tracks assembled by journalist Dan...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012
Spirit Rising: Live From Guest Street
It’s surprising that it has taken Kidjo 20 years to release her first live-in-concert album, for she’s long been one...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012
La Yarará
In the press release to her second album Malena Zavala explains her desire to explore and overcome her identity issues,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2020
Hello Cabo Verde
‘Fazê Gat’, the opening track on this rather lovely album, finds Adê singing gently in a duet with fellow Cape...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022
The Revelers
High above the swamp of recent recordings by Cajun and zydeco artists, sits The Revelers’ self-produced, debut album, thanks to...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2013
Rodrigo & Gabriela & C.U.B.A — Area 52
Happy Rod and Gab fans! Area 52 is more of the same – despite all the Cuban music it features,...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Kelmti Horra
Is this the sound of post-revolutionary Tunisia? Perhaps. Certainly it is a self-assured, outward-looking and proudly individual debut from a...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012
Hether Blether
Named after one of the vanishing islands from his native Orkney's folklore, the final album in composer Erland Cooper's trilogy...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2020
