Reviews
I’ll Find a Way
As with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, recording the Blind Boys of Alabama has its challenges. The two gospel vocal groups from...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014
Interesting Times
‘There is no escaping it. We live in the sort of times that will be referred to by historians as...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017
Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail
As a member of the progressive bluegrass band the Punch Brothers, banjo player Noam Pikelny has made a name for...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Casa Guilhermina
Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023
Mongolie: Chants de Gorge
This budget CD is a compilation of Mongolian traditional music that only actually features four tracks with throat singing. The...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2015
Calypso Rose Forever
The return to the spotlight in 2016 of the veteran Calypso Rose, half-a-century after she was first crowned Trinidad’s carnival...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022
Coti Coti
How much sax can you take? Anyone working in the vicinity of a tireless one-hit busker or being driven by...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021
Brothers of Brazil
Bossa nova never really dies, it just gets repackaged – if never quite like this. While Nouvelle Vague applied the...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2011
Chapel
If you’re thinking Andy Aquarius can’t be his real name, you’d be right. Andy Ozbolt is a singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2021
12 Inches of Dub
During the late 1970s, the Jamaican music scene was completely reconfigured when aspiring producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes began working with...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
