Reviews
Beyond the Trance
Iness Mezel's third album kicks off with the kind of Justin Adams guitar riff you'd find him using as Robert...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2011
El Aleph/Electroacustica
About 20 years ago – as a new cultural nationalism swept through Argentina – tango became cool again, emerging from...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021
Xogo
A fusion comprised of Galician folk, cumbia and hip-hop might sound unlikely but, as the second album from French foursome...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Benin Vol 4: Yehouessi Leopold Batteur
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
When Dahomey gained its independence from its French colonial masters in 1960 and became Benin, a surge of artistic creativity...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021
The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
Steve Martin’s talent as a clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjoist fares on this album much as his talent as a comic...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
Wild Bill Jones
A staple character in the canon of American folk balladry, Wild Bill Jones is usually depicted as a dashing ne’er-do-well...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2013
Meridiana
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
‘Meridiana is about our relationship with time, its perception. As southerners we are defined by our connection with the sun,...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2021
Gondwana Dawn
In paleogeography, Gondwana is the name given to the landmass that 200 million years ago joined what we now know...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
