Reviews
Laughter Out of Tears
Moira Smiley has cemented her status as a musical polyglot with her latest release alongside her female choir Voco. Not...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters
Robert Plant refreshingly continues to refuse to be defined by his past. Backed by his eclectic live band the Sensational...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Sin País
The title of this album, meaning ‘Landless’ or ‘Without a Homeland’ in Spanish, chimes with the era we are living...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Our World in Song
Wu Man, Luis Conte & Daniel Ho
“What would it sound like,” pondered Wu Man, “if I played folk songs from around the world such as ‘Frère...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Rough Guide To Music Without Frontiers
The compilation market is over-crowded; genuinely valid albums offering anything new are so rare that it is hard to suppress...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Kings of the South Seas
Bored on tour, singer and concertina player Ben Nicholls idly picked up a book called The Missionary Trail. He grew...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Visions
A Harvard student of Latin American studies and ethnomusicology, Kavita Shah has released an album on which the influence of...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Songs of Time Lost
Vincent Segal is a cellist who had a hit five years ago with Chamber Music, his beautiful, understated duo collaboration...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Paris Session
Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli keyboardist Idan Raichel have followed up their 2012 debut with an equally richly...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
In the Kingdom of Dub
Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77
Having paid his producer's dues from acid jazz groups through to Gregory Isaacs and the Sugarhill Gang, Mike Pelanconi's alter-ego...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
