Reviews
Los Nostres Vices e Pecats
Els Berros de la Cort are the musical equivalent of a re-enactment group, performing material from the medieval Catalan and...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2013
Kamalamba
Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts
Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018
Middle of Everywhere
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Pokey LaFarge as just another retro poseur, zoot-suiting his way onto...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
Shakespeare Songs
Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018
Nādī
Over a series of impressive solo albums, the guitarist Guy Buttery has established himself as a major force in South...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020
Hjeltamôs
Per Gudmundson & Bengan Janson
A crackling fire under a summer sky, dried flowers on a windowsill, a wistful smile and the coolness of grass...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2018
Lindé
After years of playing with Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum seemed well placed to take over the great man’s mantle...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Live at the Sydney Opera House
The oud is normally rather a modest instrument, so an oud concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Almas Rebeldes
Sudaka is a racial slur for ‘South American,’ used as often ironically as pejoratively. With this album of upbeat, cumbia-influenced...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Eplemøya Songlag
My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
