Reviews
Jump the Fire
California-based vocalist and clawhammer banjo player Evie Ladin shut herself away in a damp, dark cabin to compose the songs...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Si L’Hiver Peut Prendre
Lawrence O’Hearn André Marchand
The French title of this recording – ‘if only winter would take hold’ – has an idiomatic meaning in Québec....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
1000 Watts
Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno
On his latest release Quantic returns to the Flowering Inferno moniker he used for his 2010 album Dog With a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Cold Weather Music
A skilled and tasteful guitarist, Paul Tasker has taken time out from his band, the Doghouse Roses, to craft a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol 1
Take a cursory glance at Complete Recorded Works and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the latest release from...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Ziggy Marley
Bob Marley's most prolific son, Ziggy Marley, returns with a sixth studio album, aiming to put the world to rights...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Bem-Ti-Vi
Nelson da Rabeca, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Celio de Carvalho & Dona Benedita
The rabeca is a rustic variant on the violin, with a deep, dry tone. After seeing one on TV at...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Pingue-Pongue
Paulo Bellinati & Cristina Azuma
Though little of it reaches our shores, there's a great deal more to Brazilian music than bossa nova and 1970s-style...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Na Estrada
Bel Air de Forro are a new France-based outfit, a trio of Brazilian singer Mariana Caetano, fellow Brazilian Marcelo Costa...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Far From Home
From the opening, jump-up moments of ‘Abatina’, a crisp, smart updating of a famous traditional rhythm, ‘Kalenda March’, it is...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
