Reviews
Olorum
Given the current situation in Brazil, you cannot help but trip on the words Mateus Aleluia sings in the opening...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2020
Bread and Jam
If your taste leans toward finely cra.ed, casually philosophical, quirkily upbeat acoustic roots music with a dash of global funk,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020
Tales From Across the Water
Griselda Sanderson | Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha
Multi-instrumentalist Griselda Sanderson's third instrumental album, following 2008's Harpaphonics, and 2015's Radial, offers a musical hand of friendship and connection...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023
Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound from Luanda 1968-1976
With its colonial links to Portugal, it is unsurprising that the music of Angola bears remarkable similarities to rhythms heard...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
African Tree
I wish I could say that this album lives up to the artist’s laudable idea of planting 500 trees in...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2013
Oliver's Cinema
Eric Vloeimans’ Oliver's Cinema
‘For the elderly’ and ‘music to be given a wide berth’ – this is what the young Eric Vloeimans used...
Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: July/2014
Queen City Jubilee
Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2018
Exile Vibration
Kyab Yul-Sa is a collaboration between Lobsang Chonzor and French musicians Margaux Liénard (fiddle, bouzouki) and Julien Lahaye (percussion). The...
Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: November/2018
Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt
Rannok's Michael Graubæk (fiddle and mandolin) and Theis Langlands (piano and pump organ) are both well-established musicians in the Danish...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017
