Reviews
Trippin’ the Life Fantastic!
Possibly the perfect rock crossover album, this combines all the vim and vigour of bhangra music with prog-rock stadium vocals...
Reviewed by Jill Turner in issue: July/2010
The Beautiful Old: Turn of the Century Songs
Conceived by producers Paul Marsteller and Gabe Rhodes, The Beautiful Old, has a truly beautiful concept: to breathe back to...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013
Havana Classic
One day someone should write a feature on music tourism – me perhaps! By this, I mean groups of Brits...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019
At Complete Ease
Fiddler Brian Rooney first met banjoist John Carty in London in the early 1970s. At that time there was a...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011
Listen… OKA!
Chris Berry & the Bayaka Pygmies
We’ve heard plenty of examples of Bayaka pygmy music in its pure unadulterated state. We’ve also heard it expertly incorporated...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2012
Son of Africa
Flopping on release by Island Records in 1976 — the label too busy with reggae star Bob Marley to promote...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/September/2023
Śaranam
This is the third album from the Sydney-based trio. Śaranam means ‘to take refuge’ in Sanskrit and this is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: January/February/2024
Waterduction
One of Poland's outstanding musical exports, Warsaw Village Band follow their return-to-roots set, Mazovian Roots Re:action, with something of a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2021
Yours to Break
During the writing of their third album, the three East Pointers were scattered across the globe, each a long way...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020
Os Brazões
This is a welcome reissue that deserves to sit alongside tropicália classics by the likes of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2015
