Reviews
Malandras del Tango
For contemporary tango bands, there's always a temptation to play Piazzolla repertoire with a few old classics thrown in. Tango...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012
Eboni Band
In 1981, Motown producer Art Stewart travelled to Abidjan to scope out the possibility of a series of African-American collaborations...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2021
Coda: A Concluding Event
The male a capella trio bring their close-harmonies and politically engaged and socially conscious music-making to a close with Coda....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Places of Consequence
Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...
Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: October/2021
Teenage Dreams
Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2021
Folk Music of China Vol 3: Folk Songs of Yunnan
The title of this album would be more accurate with a subtitle of The Wa, Blang, and De'ang, as these...
Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: April/2020
Jiw
It took eight years of personal introspection and musical exploration for the Dakar-based Sahad Sarr to bring out his debut...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2017
Live in Vienna
The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2014
Can You Feel It?
Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021
The Nile Project: Aswan
In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
