Reviews

Rembobine

Mélisande

For the past 10 years, the Québécois band Mélisande [éléctrotrad] has been creating dance-floor electro versions of traditional French-Canadian songs...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa

The Taj Mahal Sextet

Now in his 80s, Taj Mahal is the grand old man of American roots music and follows 2022’s old-timey Get...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Aguidavi do Jêje

Aguidavi do Jêje

Slaves from present-day Nigeria, Benin and Togo brought Candomblé to Bahia (Brazil) where it thrived, developing into Afro-Brazilian ceremonies performed...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Rhapsody in Blue

Béla Fleck

According to no less an authority than Jim Farrington, former Music Librarian and Director of the World Music Archive at...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Hawaiian Cowboy

Slack Key ‘Ohana

‘‘Ohana’ is the Hawaiian word for ‘family’. And slack key is a form of tuning and playing guitar developed in...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Vida

Ana Tijoux

Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Deep Sea Vents

BrhyM

Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

All My Friends

Aoife O’Donovan

A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Way Highly

Brad Fielder

A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Needlefall

Magic Tuber Stringband

The music on Needlefall is borne of one region, but two worlds. It finds Durham, North Carolina guitar- and-fiddle duo...

Reviewed in issue May/2024