Reviews
The São Paulo Tapes
On reading that Robert Wyatt came out of retirement to produce Vasconcelos' eighth album (having previously worked with her on...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017
Bykerumba
Now in their 22nd year, Newcastle-upon-Tyne's The Baghdaddies are the elder statesmen of the UK's Balkan fusion scene. In contrast...
Reviewed by Tom Wagner in issue: July/2018
La Peña
Santaires, El Filón & Roberto Caldo
While the city of Buenos Aires boasts a couple of dedi¬cated FM tango music channels, its province – a huge...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010
Introducing the Wagon Tales
This debut album from the current darlings of the UK bluegrass scene stands as a textbook example of what happens...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Smoke Behind the Clouds
Smoke Behind the Clouds taps the deep, rich reservoir of the old-time American songbook. Led by East Tennessee native Joseph...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2017
For the Culture
Alborosie | Alborosie & King Jammy
After leading the Bergamo-based Reggae National Tickets during the late 1990s, Sicilian-born singer Alberto D’Ascola moved to Jamaica to launch...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: October/2021
The Coast Road
Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle
Boston-born fiddler Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe and bouzouki, guitar and piano player Daniel Quayle from the Isle of Man first began playing...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2022
Presents… Kingsize Blackfoot
Jinder is one Phil Dewhurst, a West Country based musician who is very tall and has Blackfoot Sioux bloodlines in...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017
Jump the Fire
California-based vocalist and clawhammer banjo player Evie Ladin shut herself away in a damp, dark cabin to compose the songs...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Witching Tale
I’m afraid I was all too ready to dismiss this eponymous debut album as just so much airy-fairy hokum. The...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2022
