Reviews
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Nostalgique Armenie: Songs of Love, Hope, Exile and Improvisations (1942-1952)
This is a homage to the music of the Armenian diaspora. The liner notes state that the Caucasus is the...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2018
Spanglish
Not to be confused with the rockabilly outfit from Antwerp, this particular raucous colony of Baboons has been a fixture...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2016
Kôrôlén
Toumani Diabaté and the London Symphony Orchestra
Anyone who saw one of the symphonic concerts Toumani Diabate gave with three different orchestras in 2008 will have been...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2021
Lero-Lero
São Paulo seems to be producing dozens of smoky, smoochy women singers at the moment. Only Céu and Mariana Aydar...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Tricota
Electronic tango is in a decadent but decisive phase. As the fad falls away, a few bands have managed to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Canciones de Isaac
Breezes, birdsong, crickets, leaf-litter, the hum of Caracas by night, and the more serene sounds of daytime walks through Pyrenean...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2022
This is Broken Folk
Percussionist, tap dancer and performance artist Carli Jefferson toured internationally with the physical theatre group Stomp, before meeting non-binary singer...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Putan de Cançon
The latest album by the neo-troubadours of Marseille, or to be more precise, the adjacent port of La Ciotat, opens...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010
