Reviews
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
Si L’Hiver Peut Prendre
Lawrence O’Hearn André Marchand
The French title of this recording – ‘if only winter would take hold’ – has an idiomatic meaning in Québec....
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Sounds of the African Mbira
Another release from ARC Music, who seem to have access to a bottomless wealth of folk and roots music from...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Kutu Prieta Pa Saranguia
The resurgent interest in Afro-Colombian music continues with this album by Son Palenque, who, in the 1980s, helped popularise the...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2018
We've Come Along
The latest release by resonator guitar and lap steel specialist Mark Lavengood, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, showcases his...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2018
Agora
Since her acclaimed 2000 debut, Tanto Tempo, reimagined bossa nova with a brilliant contemporary electronic twist, Gilberto’s career has followed...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
