Reviews
Ammore, Trivolo, Currivo e Devozione
La Moresca is an acoustic Neapolitan septet harnessing their local music to traditional styles of the Campania region and baroque...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2010
Influence
The Count and the Cuban Cocktail
The ever-expanding Cuban diaspora notwithstanding, there's something slightly bizarre about the circumstances of this debut album – recorded by a...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015
Legend
The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu & Moscow Art Trio
With a Bulgarian female choir, Tuvan throat singers and hand-picked musicians from Moscow, you get some spectacular sounds and textures...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010
Vindodo
The first thing you'll notice about this album is its packaging – no jewel case here! Instead, the CD comes...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
Hand to Play
The Seattle-based guitarist and singer Eli West is well-known for his old-time Americana duo with fellow singer Cahalen Morrison. West's...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2019
The Rough Guide to African Blues
What goes around comes around. African music was transported across the Atlantic in slave ships and came to soundtrack the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014
A Quiet House
At the heart of Julie Murphy’s austerely beautiful album is her song ‘You Are Flown From Me’. She sings of...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012
20 Years
‘As you know, we play music of various countries and peoples,’ says vocalist Mitia Khramtsov in Russian on the live...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Shogun Orchestra
New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington may only have around 400,000 people, but it’s a very happening place. With local...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2012
