Reviews
Entre l’Érable et le Cocotier
Although born in Montréal, singer and multi-instrumentalist Pascale LeBlanc grew up in Haiti, her mother’s homeland. Her songs reflect much...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2023
Live Wire
Several years ago, the Woody Guthrie official archives were given two spools of wire recordings of a live performance in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
Chico: The Definitive Collection 1970-1984
All electric-blue eyes and honeyed voice, even at 68 Chico Buarque remains the debonair renaissance man par excellence, a Brazilian...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2012
The Rough Guide To Desert Blues
It used to be something of a closed shop. For years and years, when it came to the sandblasted desert...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: October/2010
The Fruited Thorn
Formerly the singer with Gaelic band Mouth Music for several groundbreaking albums in the 90s before joining ‘acid croft’ pioneers...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
The Widening Gyre
Recorded in Nashville and fully funded by fans through pledgemusic, The Widening Gyre sees the venerable sextet finding new creative...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2015
None the Wiser
If you're looking for one of the finest contemporary poet-singers in England, look no further than the man with an...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
The Following Mountain
For those Amidon fans still swooning over the gentle folksiness of his previous five albums, The Following Mountain may come...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2017
The Old Songs
Damien Barber is the singer, concertina and guitar-player and ambitious imagin¬ation driving the Demon Barbers who, rather than concerts, present...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Past the Gates
Russian bands have only featured intermittently on the world music scene – one thinks of Sergei Starostin, the Terem Quartet...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016
